1. Now the entire earth had the same language with the same vocabulary.
2. When they traveled eastward, they found a valley-plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3. They said to one another, “Come! Let’s make bricks and bake them until they’re hard.” So they used bricks for stone, and tar for mortar.
4. Then they said, “Come! Let’s build ourselves a city, with a tower whose top reaches into heaven. So let’s make a name for ourselves, or else we will be scattered over the face of the whole land.”
5. Then Adonai came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of man had built.
6. Adonai said, “Look, the people are one and all of them have the same language. So this is what they have begun to do. Now, nothing they plan to do will be impossible.