Genesis 11:1-3

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The Languages Confused

11 At this time the whole world spoke one language, and everyone used the same words. ² As people ·moved [migrated] ·from the east [or eastward; 2:8; 4:16], they found a plain in the land of ·Babylonia [^LShinar] and settled there.

³ They said to each other, “Let’s make bricks and ·bake [burn; fire] them ·to make them hard [thoroughly; ^Cin ancient times builders used mudbrick].” So they used bricks instead of stones, and ·tar [bitumen] instead of mortar.