1. At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words.
2. As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there.
3. They said to one another, “Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard.” So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together.
4. They said, “Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth.”