Genesis 11:2-4

Christian Standard Bible

² As people migrated from the east,^[a] they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.^{(A) 3} They said to each other, “Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt^(B) for mortar.) ⁴ And they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky.^(C) Let’s make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.”