5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man were building.6 And the Lord said, Behold, it is one people, and they have all one language, and this is the first thing they undertake to do; and now shall they not be restrained in all which they have imagined to do?7 Go to, let us go down, and confound there their language, that they may not understand one anothers speech.8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city.9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over the face of all the earth.