Genesis 11

5 But the Lord came down to take a look at the city and the tower that the people were building. 6 The Lord said, "Look! These people are united and they all speak one language. If this is what they can do now when they’re just getting started, nothing will be impossible for them when they all put their minds to it! 7 We need to go down and mix up their language and make it confused so they won’t be able to understand what they’re saying to one other."

8 The Lord sent them away from there and scattered them all over the world, and they gave up building the city. 9 That’s why it was called Babel,*11:9. Babel sounds like the Hebre5 word for "confuse." because the Lord made the language of the world confused.