1. At one time the whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.
2. As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3. They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.
4. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5. Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building.
6. The Lord said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.