MESSAGE
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.