Genesis 11:5-9

Expanded Bible

⁵ The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the ·people [^Lsons of man] had built. ⁶ The Lord said, “Now, these people are ·united [^Lone], all speaking ·the same [^Lone] language. This is only the beginning of what they will do. ·They will be able to do anything they want [^LNothing they want to do will be impossible for them]. ⁷ Come, let us go down and confuse their language [^Lthere] so they will not be able to understand each other.”

⁸ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they ·stopped [ceased] building the city. ⁹ The place is called Babel [^Csounds like the Hebrew word for “confused”] since that is where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord caused them to spread out from there over the whole world.