6 And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, ^dlet us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So ^ethe Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called ^fBabel, because there the Lord confused¹ the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.