And they had brick for stone, and slime had
they for mortar.
"And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest
we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
"And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
"And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will
be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
"Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech.
"So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
"Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord
did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence
did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."
(Genesis xi, 1-9.)
Thus far the legend had been but slightly changed from the
earlier Chaldean form in which it has been found in the Assyrian
inscriptions.
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