^{4 Ref} And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

^{5 Ref} And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

^{6 Ref} and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people `is' one, and one pronunciation `is' to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

^{7 Ref} Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

^{8 Ref} And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;