1 The whole world had only one language. All people spoke it.
2 They moved to the east and found a broad valley in Babylonia. There they settled down.
3 They said to each other, "Come. Let's make bricks and bake them well." They used bricks instead of stones. They used tar to hold the bricks together.
4 Then they said, "Come. Let's build a city for ourselves. Let's build a tower that reaches to the sky. We'll make a name for ourselves. Then we won't be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.