Genesis 11:1–9

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. ²And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of ^aShinar; and they dwelt there. ³And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and ^bslime had they for morter. ⁴And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, ^cwhose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. ^5dAnd the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. ⁶And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. ⁷Go to, ^elet us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. ⁸So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence ^fupon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. ⁹Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.