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Babel: A City in the Plain of Shinar--Tower Built, and Tongues Confused At Genesis 11:1–9

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech. / And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. / And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.