Genesis 11:7-9

Living Bible

⁷ Come, let us go down and give them different languages, so that they won’t understand each other’s words!”

⁸ So, in that way, God scattered them all over the earth; and that ended the building of the city. ⁹ That is why the city was called Babel (meaning “confusion”), because it was there that Jehovah confused them by giving them many languages, thus widely scattering them across the face of the earth.