In Context

2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

3 They said one to another, |Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.| They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

4 They said, |Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.|

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

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

7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.|

Genesis 11:5 in Other Translations