Genesis 11:7-9

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⁷ Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”^{(A) 8} So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.^{(B) 9} Therefore it was called Babel,^[a] because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.^(C)