Genesis 11: Babel and the Line of Shem

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed

from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly.

And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. And they said,

Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and

let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole

earth. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children

of men builded. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all