Genesis 11:5-9

New King James Version

^5 (A)But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. ⁶ And the Lord said, “Indeed ^(B)the people are one and they all have ^(C)one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they ^(D)propose to do will be withheld from them. ⁷ Come, ^(E)let Us go down and there ^(F)confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” ⁸ So ^(G)the Lord scattered them abroad from there ^(H)over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. ⁹ Therefore its name is called ^[a]Babel, ^(I)because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.