Genesis:11:1-9

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* And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech . * And it came to pass , as they journeyed east , that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there . * And they said one to another : 'Come , let us make brick , and burn them thoroughly .' And they had brick for stone , and slime had they for mortar . * And they said : 'Come , let us build us a city , and a tower , with its top in heaven , and let us make us a name ; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth .' * And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower , which the children of men builded . * And the LORD said : 'Behold , they are one people , and they have all one language ; and this is what they begin to do ; and now nothing will be withholden from them , which they purpose to do . * Come , let us go down , and there confound their language , that they may not understand one another 's speech .' * So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth ; and they left off to build the city . * Therefore was the name of it called Babel ; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth ; and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth .

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