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 from the east , that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there . * And they said one to another , Go to , let us make brick , and burn them throughly . And they had brick for stone , and slime had they for morter . * And they said , Go to , let us build us a city and a tower , whose top may reach unto 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 , the people is one , and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them , which they have imagined to do . * Go to , 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 is 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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