Genesis 11:1-9

Genesis 11

The Tower of Babel

 1At first everyone spoke the same language, 2but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia, 3-4they said: Let's build a city with a tower that reaches to the sky! We'll use hard bricks and tar instead of stone and mortar. We'll become famous, and we won't be scattered all over the world.

    5But when the LORD came down to look at the city and the tower, 6he said:

   These people are working together because they all speak the same language. This is just the beginning. Soon they will be able to do anything they want. 7Come on! Let's go down and confuse them by making them speak different languages--then they won't be able to understand each other.

    8-9So the people had to stop building the city, because the LORD confused their language and scattered them all over the earth. That's how the city of Babel got its name.


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