dby - Genesis:11:1-9

dby@Genesis:11:1 @ And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.

dby@Genesis:11:2 @ And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.

dby@Genesis:11:3 @ And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

dby@Genesis:11:4 @ And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

dby@Genesis:11:5 @ And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

dby@Genesis:11:6 @ And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.

dby@Genesis:11:7 @ Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

dby@Genesis:11:8 @ And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth. And they left off building the city.

dby@Genesis:11:9 @ Therefore was its name called Babel; because Jehovah there confounded the language of the whole earth. And Jehovah scattered them thence over the face of the whole earth.