² And it happened as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land ^(A)of Shinar and ^[a]settled there. ³ 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. ⁴ And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top ^(C)will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves ^(D)a name, lest we ^(E)be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”