Genesis 11:1-6

The Tower of Babel

Now the whole earth ¹had the same language and ²the same words. 2 And it happened as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land ^aof Shinar and ¹settled there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had ^atar for mortar. 4 And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top ^awill reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves ^ba name, lest we ^cbe scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 5 ^aThen Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have ¹^athe same language. And this is what they have begun to do. So now nothing which they purpose to do will be ²impossible for them.