5 And LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
6 And LORD said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. And now nothing will be withheld from them, which they propose to do.
7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand each other's speech.
8 So LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
9 Therefore the name of it was called Babel, because LORD there confounded the language of all the earth, and from there LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.