5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be withheld from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they stopped building the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD there confounded the language of all the earth: and from there did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Babel: that is, Confusion