- 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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- 那时,天下人的口音,言语,都是一样。
- 他们往东边迁移的时候,在示拿地遇见一片平原,就住在那里。
- 他们彼此商量说,来吧,我们要作砖,把砖烧透了。他们就拿砖当石头,又拿石漆当灰泥。
- 他们说,来吧,我们要建造一座城和一座塔,塔顶通天,为要传扬我们的名,免得我们分散在全地上。
- 耶和华降临,要看看世人所建造的城和塔。
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