1And the whole earth had one language and the same words.2And it came to pass, when they set out from the east, that they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.3And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." So the brick served them for stone, and the bitumen served them for mortar.4And they said, "Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, with its top in the heavens, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered upon the face of all the earth."5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of man had built.6And the LORD said, "Look, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they have begun to do; now nothing that they plan to do will be impossible for them."7Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's language.8And the LORD scattered them from there upon the face of all the earth, and they ceased to build the city.9Therefore its name was called Babylon, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them upon the face of all the earth.