1. The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.
2. When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3. Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
4. Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”
5. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.
6. And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.