创世记 11

4. 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。” 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."

5. 耶和华降临，要看看世人所建造的城和塔。 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.

6. 耶和华说：“看哪，他们成为一样的人民，都是一样的言语，如今既作起这事来，以后他们所要作的事就没有不成就的了。 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

7. 我们下去，在那里变乱他们的口音，使他们的言语彼此不通。” Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

8. 于是，耶和华使他们从那里分散在全地上，他们就停工不造那城了。 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.