Genesis 11:1-9At first, the people of the whole world
had only one language and used the same words. As they wandered
about
the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there. They
said to one another, "Come on! Let''s make bricks and bake hem hard." So
they had bricks to build with and tar o hold them together. They said,
"Now let''s build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we
can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."
Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which
those men had built, and He said, "Now then, these are all one people
and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they
are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want! Let
us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand
each other." So the Lord scattered them all over the earth, and they
stopped building the city. The city was called Babylon, because there
the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there He
scattered them all over the earth.