^{2 Ref} And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

^{3 Ref} And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

^{4 Ref} And they said, Come, 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 Ref} And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

^{6 Ref} And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

^{7 Ref} Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

^{8 Ref} So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

^{9 Ref} Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.