Genesis 11 (TRV)

From Textus Receptus

• 1 Now the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

• 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.

• 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had tar for mortar.

• 4 And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top can reach the heaven; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

• 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

• 6 And the LORD said, “Behold the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they are beginning to do; and now nothing that they have imagined to do will be withheld from them.

• 7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

• 8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

• 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.