| 1C.
| And all the earth had one language and one tongue.
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| 2C.
| And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.
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| 3C.
| And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
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| 4C.
| And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
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| 5C.
| And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
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| 6C.
| And the Lord said, See, they are all one people and have all one language; and this is only the start of what they may do; and now it will not be possible to keep them from any purpose of theirs.
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| 7C.
| Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.
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| 8C.
| So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth; and they gave up building their town.
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| 9C.
| So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages; and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
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| :C.
| From The Bible In Basic English, first published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press (London and New York) in 1949.
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Basic English