Genesis 11:7-9 Go to, let us go down, and confound there their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Leeser⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ Go to, let us go down, and confound there their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. ⁸ So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth; and they left off to build the city. ⁹ Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from there did the Lord scatter them abroad over the face of all the earth.