Genesis 11:4-8 ▼

4 And they say, “Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

5 And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;

6 and YHWH says, “Behold, the people [is] one, and one language [is] to them all, and this it has dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

7 Give help, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that a man will not understand the language of his companion.”

8 And YHWH scatters them from there over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;