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

3. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
    burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and
    slime had they for mortar.

4. And they said, Go to, 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. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,
    which the children of men builded.

6. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
    all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing
    will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
    they may not understand one anothers speech.

8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
    of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did
     there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence
     did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.