5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.6 And Jehovah said, Behold, the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they devise to do will be withheld from them.7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they cannot understand one anothers speech.8 So Jehovah scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because there Jehovah confused the language of all the earth; and from there Jehovah scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.