5
Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that {humankind} was building.
6
And Yahweh said, "Behold, {they are one people with one language}, and {this is only the beginning of what they will do}. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.
7
Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand {each other's language}."
8
So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.
9
Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Footnotes 1
[a].
Literally "each the language of his companion"
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