Genesis 11:1-8

1 At this time the whole world spoke one language, and everyone used the same words.
2 As people moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.
3 They said to each other, "Let's make bricks and bake them to make them hard." So they used bricks instead of stones, and tar instead of mortar.
4 Then they said to each other, "Let's build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth."
5 The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.
6 The Lord said, "Now, these people are united, all speaking the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do. They will be able to do anything they want.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other."
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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