Bereshis 11:1-9

Orthodox Jewish Bible

11 And the kol HaAretz was of one language and of devarim achadim (common words).

² And it came to pass, as they migrated from the east, that they found a plain in Eretz Shinar; and they dwelt there.

³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and bake them thoroughly. And they had brick for even (stone), and bitumen had they for mortar.

⁴ And they said, Come, let us build us an Ir and a Migdal, whose rosh (top) may reach unto Shomayim; and let us make us a shem, otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of kol HaAretz.

⁵ And Hashem came down to see the Ir and the Migdal, which Bnei HaAdam built.

⁶ And Hashem said, See, the Am is echad and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be impossible for them, which they have proposed to do.

⁷ Come, let Us go down, and there confuse their sefat, that they may not understand one another’s language.

⁸ So Hashem scattered them abroad from there upon the face of kol Ha’Aretz; and they left off building the Ir.

⁹ Therefore is the shem of it called Babel; because Hashem did there confuse the language of kol Ha’Aretz; and from there did Hashem scatter them abroad upon the face of kol Ha’Aretz.