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Now the whole earth had one language and few words .
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And as men migrated from the east ,
they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there .
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And they said to one another , "
Come ,
let us make bricks ,
and burn them thoroughly ."
And they had brick for stone ,
and bitumen for mortar .
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Then they said , "
Come ,
let us build ourselves a city ,
and a tower with its top in the heavens ,
and let us make a name for ourselves ,
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth ."
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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower ,
which the sons of men had built .
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And the LORD said , "
Behold ,
they are one people ,
and they have all one language ;
and this is only the beginning of what they will do ;
and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them .
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Come ,
let us go down ,
and there confuse their language ,
that they may not understand one another '
s speech ."
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So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth ,
and they left off building the city .
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Therefore its name was called Ba '
bel ,
because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth ;
and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth .