1 Now the entire earth had the same language with the same vocabulary.
2 When they traveled eastward, they found a valley-plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to one another, “Come! Let’s make bricks and bake them until they’re hard.” So they used bricks for stone, and tar for mortar.
4 Then they said, “Come! Let’s build ourselves a city, with a tower whose top reaches into heaven. So let’s make a name for ourselves, or else we will be scattered over the face of the whole land.”