1. At this time the whole world spoke one language. Everyone used the same words.
2. As people moved from the East, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia. They settled there to live.
3. They said to each other, “Let’s make bricks and bake them to make them hard.” So they used bricks instead of stones, and tar instead of mortar.
4. Then they said to each other, “Let’s build for ourselves a city and a tower. And let’s make the top of the tower reach high into the sky. We will become famous. If we do this, we will not be scattered over all the earth.”