Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 11

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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.

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.

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.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.