Tower of Babel

'''Back to [[Bible Topic from Genesis to Revelation]]''' '''Back to [['Genesis]]''' ---- Ge 11:1: And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.<br/> Ge 11:2: And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.<br/> Ge 11:3: And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.<br/> Ge 11:4: And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.<br/> Ge 11:5: And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.<br/> Ge 11:6: 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 restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.<br/> Ge 11:7: Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.<br/> Ge 11:8: So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.<br/> Ge 11:9: 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 upon the face of all the earth.[[Category:Bible Topic]]