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Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

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Genesis 10:5
Of these were the islands of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

Genesis 11:5
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

Genesis 11:6
Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

Genesis 11:7
Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

Genesis 11:8
So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

Genesis 11:9
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

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Genesis 11:1
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

Genesis 11:2
As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

Genesis 11:3
They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

Genesis 11:4
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

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