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But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
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Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
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So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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That is why it was called Babel[a] —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.