^{6 Ref} Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

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

^{8 Ref} So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

^{9 Ref} Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because Yahweh confused the language of all the earth, there. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.