Genesis 11

5 Then the Lord came down  * 11:5 Gn 18:21; Ex 3:8; 19:11,18,20 to look over the city and the tower that the humans  * 11:5 Or the descendants of Adam were building. 6 The Lord said, "If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech." 8 So from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth,  * 11:8 Gn 11:4; Ps 92:9; Lk 1:51 and they stopped building the city. 9 Therefore it is called Babylon,  * 11:9 Hb Babel,* 11:9 In Hb, the name for "Babylon," babel sounds like the word for "confuse," balal.,* 11:9 Gn 10:10 for there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.