1. All people on the earth had one language and the same words.
2. When they traveled east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3. They said to each other, "Come, let’s make bricks and bake them hard." They used bricks for stones and asphalt for mortar.
4. They said, "Come, let’s build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves so that we won’t be dispersed over all the earth."