^{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.