After the flood, Noah's sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth began to replenish the earth. Some of their descendants moved to a plain in Shinar to dwell. It was in Shinar where they decided to build a city and a tower to reach into heaven (Genesis 10 and 11).
The Lord saw what they had done and said, "Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do" (Genesis 11:6).
The Lord decided to confuse them and scatter them throughout the earth and called the city Babel. "Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth" (Genesis 11:9).
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