7. Come! Let Us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other’s language.”
8. So Adonai scattered them from there over the face of the entire land, and they stopped building the city.
9. This is why it is named Babel, because Adonai confused the languages of the entire world there, and from there Adonai scattered them over the face of the entire world.
10. These are the genealogical records of Shem: Shem was 100 years old when he fathered Arpachshad—two years after the flood.