The Latin Vulgate VUL
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1 erat autem terra labii unius et sermonum eorundem
1
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
2 cumque proficiscerentur de oriente invenerunt campum in terra Sennaar et habitaverunt in eo
2
As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 dixitque alter ad proximum suum venite faciamus lateres et coquamus eos igni habueruntque lateres pro saxis et bitumen pro cemento
3
They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
4 et dixerunt venite faciamus nobis civitatem et turrem cuius culmen pertingat ad caelum et celebremus nomen nostrum antequam dividamur in universas terras
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Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 descendit autem Dominus ut videret civitatem et turrem quam aedificabant filii Adam
5
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
6 et dixit ecce unus est populus et unum labium omnibus coeperuntque hoc facere nec desistent a cogitationibus suis donec eas opere conpleant
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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.
7 venite igitur descendamus et confundamus ibi linguam eorum ut non audiat unusquisque vocem proximi sui
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Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 atque ita divisit eos Dominus ex illo loco in universas terras et cessaverunt aedificare civitatem
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So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 et idcirco vocatum est nomen eius Babel quia ibi confusum est labium universae terrae et inde dispersit eos Dominus super faciem cunctarum regionum
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That is why it was called Babel —because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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