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."
8So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.
9Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
10This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.
