'Now all the land spoke with one language (mouth) and one speech (tongue). But at the time of setting out from the east, it happened that they saw a lowland in the land of Šinʿār, with them settling there. And so they spoke to one another, saying, “Come, let’s put bricks together, baking (them) through”, as they had bricks for rock and sticky mud for mortar. They further spoke, saying, “Come, let’s build us a town and an enormous house, with the top of it upon the sky, and bring about a name for ourselves so that we might not scatter through all the land.” But Yahweh came below so that he might look at the town and the enormous house that the children of people built. On that, Yahweh spoke, saying, “Look, the clan are united, having one language, so they set out to do that, and so they will be barred from nothing that they might think about doing. Come, let us come below and throw their language into confusion there, so that, one to another, they might not apprehend the language.” So Yahweh scattered them from there through all the land, and so they stopped building the town. For this reason the town is called Bāḇel, because there Yahweh threw the language of all the land into confusion, and because from there Yahweh scattered them through all the land.'