¹¹ From that land he went to Assyria,^(A) where he built Nineveh,^(B) Rehoboth Ir,^[a] Calah ¹² and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.

⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,^(A) so that we may make a name^(B) for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered^(C) over the face of the whole earth.”^(D)

⁵ But the Lord came down^(E) to see the city and the tower the people were building.

⁸ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,^(A) and they stopped building the city.