Genesis 11:1-9
Now the whole
earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated
from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled
there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and
burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for
mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a
tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest
we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”5 And the LORD came down
to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
6 And the LORD said, “Behold, they are
one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of
what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible
for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so
that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So the LORD
dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off
building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because
there the LORD confused[a] the language of all the earth. And from there
the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Footnotes:
a. Genesis 11:9 Babel sounds like
the Hebrew for confused
Illustration "The Tower of
Babel" from a woodcut by Baron Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld,
1794-1872, a distinguished German artist known especially for his book, Das
Buch der Bücher in Bilden (The Book of Books in Pictures). © WELS used by
permission for personal and congregational use.
English Standard Version (ESV)
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