The Tower of Babel

   The whole world spoke the same language, using the same words.
While men were migrating in the east, they came upon a Vally
in the land of Shina and settled there. They said to one another,
" Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire." They used
bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come,
let ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so
make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all
over the earth."
   The LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the
men had built. Then the LORD said, " If now, while they are one
people, all speaking the same language, they have started to do
this, nothing will later stop them from doing whatever they presume
to do. Let us then go down and there confuse their language, so
that one will not understand what another says." Thus the LORD
scattered them from there all over the earth and they stopped building
the city. That is why it was called Babel, because the LORD confide
the speech of all world. It was from that place that he scattered them
all over the earth.



From the new american bible