1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
2 And as people migrated from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 And they said to each other, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.
4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that humankind was building.