3 They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”
5 The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.
6 Then the Lord said: If now, while they are one people and all have the same language, they have started to do this, nothing they presume to do will be out of their reach.
7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 That is why it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the speech of all the world. From there the Lord scattered them over all the earth.