^5 (A)But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. ⁶ And the Lord said, “Indeed ^(B)the people are one and they all have ^(C)one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they ^(D)propose to do will be withheld from them.

⁹ Therefore its name is called ^[a]Babel, ^(A)because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.