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he said, “If they have begun this as one people sharing a common language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language and prevent them from understanding each other.”

Then they said, “Come, let’s begin work to build ourselves a city with a lofty tower that rises into the heavens. We’ll make a name for ourselves, a monument to us, instead of being scattered all over the earth.”

That is why the city was called Babel—because it was there that YAHWEH confused the language of the whole world and from there the people were scattered over the face of the earth.

Now everyone at that time spoke a single language with one vocabulary.

But when YAHWEH came down to see the city and the tower which mortals had started building

So YAHWEH scattered them over the entire earth, and they stopped building their city.