1The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
2It happened, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there.
3They said one to another, "Come, let`s make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4They said, "Come, let`s build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let`s make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
6Yahweh 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.
7Come, let`s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another`s speech."
