Genesis 11: 1 - 9
The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11
- 1
- And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
- 2
- And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt
there.
- 3
- And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
had they for morter.
- 4
- And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- 5
- And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
- 6
- And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing
will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
- 7
- Go to, 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 to build the city.
- 9
- Therefore is the name of it called Babel; 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.