1 At first everyone spoke the same language,
2 but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia,
3-4 they said:Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.
5 But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,