- Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
- As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
- They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
- Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
- But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
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- 那時、天下人的口音言語、都是一樣。
- 他們往東邊遷移的時候、在示拿地遇見一片平原、就住在那裡。
- 他們彼此商量說、來罷、我們要作磚、把磚燒透了。他們就拿磚當石頭、又拿石漆當灰泥。
- 他們說、來罷、我們要建造一座城、和一座塔、塔頂通天、為要傳揚我們的名、免得我們分散在全地上。
- 耶和華降臨要看看世人所建造的城和塔。
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