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The Tower of Babel

11 Now the whole earth [a]had the same language and [b]the same words. And it happened as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land (A)of Shinar and [c]settled there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had (B)tar for mortar.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:1 Lit was one lip
  2. Genesis 11:1 Or one set of words
  3. Genesis 11:2 Lit dwelt