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And as people migrated[a] from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to each other,[b] “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.”[c] And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 11:2 Or “set out”
  2. Genesis 11:3 Literally “each to his companion”
  3. Genesis 11:3 Literally “burn to burning”