Day 5 – Tower of Babel

₁At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words. ₂As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there. ₃They said to one another, “Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard.” So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together. ₄They said, “Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth.”

₅Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which those men had built, ₆and he said, “Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want! ₇Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand one another.” ₈So the LORD scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. ₉The city was called Babylon, because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.