One Language One Valley and the Tower That Fell

And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a valley in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said one to another: Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and bitumen they had for mortar. And they said: Come, let us build us a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built. And the LORD said: Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withheld from them which they have planned to do. Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the LORD scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth, and they ceased to build the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confounded the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad upon the face of all the earth.