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Bereshis 11:5-10 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

5. And Hashem came down to see the Ir and the Migdal, which Bnei HaAdam built.

6. And Hashem said, See, the Am is echad and they have all one language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be impossible for them, which they have proposed to do.

7. Come, let Us go down, and there confuse their sefat, that they may not understand one another's language.

8. So Hashem scattered them abroad from there upon the face of kol Ha'Aretz; and they left off building the Ir.

9. Therefore is the shem of it called Babel; because Hashem did there confuse the language of kol Ha'Aretz; and from there did Hashem scatter them abroad upon the face of kol Ha'Aretz.

10. These are the toldot of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and fathered Arpachshad two years after the mabbul;

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