2. and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;
3. and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.
4. And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'
5. And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
6. and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people [is] one, and one pronunciation [is] to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.
7. Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'