jps - Genesis:11:1-9

jps@Genesis:11:1 @ And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

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

jps@Genesis:11:3 @ 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.

jps@Genesis:11:4 @ 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.'

jps@Genesis:11:5 @ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

jps@Genesis:11:6 @ 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.

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

jps@Genesis:11:8 @ So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.

jps@Genesis:11:9 @ 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.