Genesis 11: 1-9

1 And the whole earth was of one language, and
of one speech.

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from
the east, that they found a plain in the land of
Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us
make brick, and burn them throughly. And
they had brick for stone, and slime had they for
morter.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a
tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and
let us make us a name, lest we be scattered
abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to see the city and
the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one,
and they have all one language; and this they
begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their
language, that they may not understand one
another's speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from
thence upon the face of all the earth: and they
left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel;
because the LORD did there confound the
language of all the earth: and from thence did
the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of
all the earth.