Genesis 11:7-9

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⁷ Come, let us^(A) go down^(B) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”^(C)

⁸ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth,^(D) and they stopped building the city. ⁹ That is why it was called Babel^[a](E)—because there the Lord confused the language^(F) of the whole world.^(G) From there the Lord scattered^(H) them over the face of the whole earth.