Genesis 11:1-9 - The Tower Of Babylon

¹ And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. ² And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. ³ And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had slime for mortar. ⁴ And they said, Come, let us build a city for us, and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for us, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

⁵ And LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built. ⁶ And LORD 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 withheld from them, which they propose to do. ⁷ Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech. ⁸ So LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. ⁹ Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because LORD there confounded the language of all the earth, and from there LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.