Go to, let us go down and confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech,
and they may be dispersed into cities and nations, and one purpose will no longer abide with them till the day of judgment."
And the Lord descended, and we descended with Him to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built.
And He confounded their language, and they no longer understood one another's speech, and they ceased then to build the city and the tower.
For this reason the whole land of Shinar is called Babel, because the Lord did there confound all the language of the children of men, and from thence they were dispersed into their cities, each according to his language and his nation.