THE
BIBLE, GENESIS 11:
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and one speech. 2 And it
came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain
in the land of Shin-ar; 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 mortar. 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 earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them
abroad upon the face of all the earth. |
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