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They said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top1will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves 2a name, otherwise we 3will be scattered abroad over the face of the wholeearth."
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4The LORDcamedown to see the city and the towerwhich the sons of men had built.
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The LORDsaid, "Behold, they are onepeople, and they all have 5the samelanguage. And this is what they began to do, and nownothing*which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
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"Come, 6let Us godown and there7confuse their language, so that they will not understandoneanother'sspeech."
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So the LORD8scattered them abroad from thereover the face of the wholeearth; and they stoppedbuilding the city.
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Therefore* its name was called9Babel, becausethere the LORDconfused the language of the wholeearth; and from there the LORDscattered them abroad over the face of the wholeearth.