Genesis 11:1--11:9 (The Tower of Babylon)

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Chapter 11

11:1    At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words.

11:2    As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there.

11:3    They said to one another, “Come on! Let’s make bricks and bake them hard.” So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together.

11:4    They said, “Now let’s build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth.”

11:5    Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which they had built,

11:6    and He said, “Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!

11:7    Let Us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other.”

11:8    So the LORD scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.

11:9    The city was called Babylon,d  because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the people, and from there He scattered them all over the earth.

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