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And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speach.

And it came to passe as they iourneyed from the East, that they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

And they sayd one to another; Goe to, let vs make bricke, and burne them thorowly. And they had bricke for stone, and slime had they for morter.

And they said; Goe to, let vs build vs a city and a tower, whose top may reach vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest we be scattered abroad vpon the face of the whole earth.

And the LORD came downe to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the LORD said; Behold, the people is one, and they haue all one language: and this they begin to doe: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they haue imagined to doe.

Goe to, let vs go downe, and there cofound their language, that they may not vnderstand one anothers speech.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence, vpon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the Citie.

Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad vpon the face of all the earth.