Genesis 11:1-9
After the flood the whole earth spoke one language, and they all dwelt together in a plain called Shinar.
We read about men like Nimrod who became a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord.
Men began to build great cities. They were very proud and thought to make a great name for themselves. So they said one to another, Let us make brick, and let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven. God wanted the people to spread themselves over the earth, but they said, Let us not be scattered over the earth. Let us live together in our city.
But God came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
And God said, “Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
So God confounded, or mixed up, their language so that they could not understand one another’s speech. And God scattered them abroad from there all over the earth: and they left off building the city.
Therefore, the name of it is called Babel; because there God confounded the language of all the earth.
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