1 All people on the earth had one language and the same words.
2 When they traveled east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to each other, "Come, let’s make bricks and bake them hard." They used bricks for stones and asphalt for mortar.
4 They said, "Come, let’s build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves so that we won’t be dispersed over all the earth."