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The whole earth was of one language and of one speech .
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It happened ,
as they traveled east ,
that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ,
and they lived there .
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They said one to another , "
Come ,
let '
s make bricks ,
and burn them thoroughly ."
They had brick for stone ,
and they used tar for mortar .
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They said , "
Come ,
let '
s build ourselves a city ,
and a tower whose top reaches to the sky ,
and let '
s make ourselves a name ,
lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth ."
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Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower ,
which the children of men built .
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Yahweh said , "
Behold ,
they are one people ,
and they have all one language ,
and this is what they begin to do .
Now nothing will be withheld from them ,
which they intend to do .
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Come ,
let '
s go down ,
and there confuse their language ,
that they may not understand one another '
s speech ."
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So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth .
They stopped building the city .
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Therefore its name was called Babel ,
because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth .
From there ,
Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth .