All the people of the earth spoke one language; and as they travelled westward,

they found a broad valley in the land of Babylonia, and made their home there.
Then they said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks and thoroughly bake the
m." So they had bricks for stone and asphalt for mortar. And they said, "Come, l
et us build us a city, and a tower whose top will touch the heavens, and thus ma
ke a landmark, that we may not be scattered over all the earth."
But when Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower men had built, he said,
"See, they are one people and all have one language. This is but the beginning,
and now nothing which they plan to do will seem too difficult for them. Come, l
et us go down and confuse their language, that they may not understand one anoth
er."
So Jehovah scattered them from there over all the earth; and they stopped buildi
ng the city. Therefore they named it Babel, which means Confusion, for there Jeh
ovah confused the language of all the people on the earth and scattered them ove
r the whole world.