Genesis 11:2-9

New American Standard Bible

² And it came about, as they journeyed ^[a]east, that they found a plain in the land ^(A)of Shinar and ^[b]settled there. ³ Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and ^[c]fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used ^(B)tar for mortar. ⁴ And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top ^(C)will reach into heaven, and let’s make ^(D)a name for ourselves; otherwise we ^(E)will be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.” ⁵ Now ^(F)the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the ^[d]men had built. ⁶ And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have ^[e](G)the same language. And this is what they have started to do, and now nothing which they plan to do will be ^[f]impossible for them. ⁷ Come, ^[g](H)let Us go down and there ^(I)confuse their ^[h]language, so that they will not understand one another’s ^[i]speech.” ⁸ So the Lord ^(J)scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they stopped building the city. ⁹ Therefore it was named ^[j](K)Babel, because there the Lord confused the ^[k]language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.