Genesis 11:5-9

21st Century King James Version

⁵ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

⁶ And the Lord said, “Behold, the people are one and they have all one language, and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be withheld from them which they have imagined to do.

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

⁸ So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth; and they left off building the city.

⁹ Therefore is the name of it called Babel [that is, Confusion], because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.