Baverset oyo Eyebani Mpenza ewuti na Genesis 11

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The LORD said, ‘Because they all speak the same language, they are able to do this. If they can do this together, they may decide to do whatever they want. Now we must go down to them. We must cause their language to become confused. Then they will not be able to understand each other.’

They said, ‘Let us build a city to live in. We should also build a very tall tower. The tower will go up into the heavens. Then we will always be famous. If we do that, we will not have to go and live in different places on the earth.’

That is why people called the city Babel. It was because the LORD confused all the people of the world and he gave them different languages to speak. From that time, the LORD caused the people to live in different groups all over the earth.

At this time, everyone who lived on the earth spoke one language. They used the same words.

But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower. He saw that the people had started to build them.

So the LORD divided the people from one another. They went to live in different places all over the earth. They stopped building the city for themselves.