Genesis 11:8-10

Expanded Bible

⁸ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they ·stopped [ceased] building the city. ⁹ The place is called Babel [^Csounds like the Hebrew word for “confused”] since that is where the Lord confused the language of the whole world. So the Lord caused them to spread out from there over the whole world.

The Story of Shem’s Family

¹⁰ This is the ·family history [^Lbook of the generations; 2:4] of Shem [9:18; 10:21–31]. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, his son Arphaxad [10:22] was born.