²² And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us,^(A) knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life^(B) and eat, and live forever.”

⁵ But the Lord came down^(A) to see the city and the tower the people were building. ⁶ The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language^(B) they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. ⁷ Come, let us^(C) go down^(D) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”^(E)

⁸ Then I heard the voice^(A) of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send?^(B) And who will go for us?^(C)”

And I said, “Here am I.^(D) Send me!”

¹⁶ “Come near^(A) me and listen^(B) to this: