LEB(i)
2 And as people migrated* from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 And they said ⌊to each other⌋,* "Come, let us make bricks and ⌊burn them thoroughly⌋."* And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar.
4 And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
5 Then* Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that ⌊humankind⌋* was building.
6 And Yahweh said, "Behold, ⌊they are one people with one language⌋,* and ⌊this is only the beginning of what they will do⌋.* So* now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand ⌊each other's language⌋."*
8 So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city.
9 Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.