5. The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
6. The Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
7. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech."
8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city.
9. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.
10. These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;