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Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
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And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
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And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
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Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."
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The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.
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And the Lord said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
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Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
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So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.