Genesis:11:1-9
nsb@Genesis:11:1 @ The entire world had one language and common words.
nsb@Genesis:11:2 @ As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
nsb@Genesis:11:3 @ They said to each other: »Let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.« They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
nsb@Genesis:11:4 @ Then they said: »Let us build ourselves a city, with a lofty tower that reaches into space, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.«
nsb@Genesis:11:5 @ But Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
nsb@Genesis:11:6 @ Jehovah said: »If they become one people speaking the same language, nothing will be impossible for them. They have begun to do this.
nsb@Genesis:11:7 @ »Let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.«
nsb@Genesis:11:8 @ Jehovah scattered them from there over all the earth. They stopped building the city.
nsb@Genesis:11:9 @ That is why it was called Babel because Jehovah confused the language of the whole world. Jehovah scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth.
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