The Tower of Babel – Genesis – The Brick Bible

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Now all the earth had one language and spoke the same dialect. When they moved to the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar.

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They settled there and said to each other, "Let's form bricks and bake them. Let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let's make a name for ourselves, for otherwise we'll be scattered across the face of the earth."

2 of 8 Genesis 11:2–4

They used bricks instead of stone, and asphalt for mortar.

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And Yahweh went down to see the city and the tower that the sons of humankind were building, and said, "Look! A single people with a single language, and this is what they start to do! Now nothing they plan will be impossible for them!"

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"Come, let's go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another."

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And Yahweh scattered them from that place across the face of the earth.

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And they stopped building the city.

7 of 8 Genesis 11:8

That is why it was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. And Yahweh scattered them from that place across the face of the earth.

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