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.