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Original English
1. Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
2. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
4. 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. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.
6. 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. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
8. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9. That is why it was called Babel -- because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
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Láadan Translation
1. Bíide eríli thi Doni daneth nede neda, i ndi with woho beth wóo.
2. Widahath memina with henedim, meredeb ben raboth Shinareha, i nómina ben núuha.
3. Ndi ben beneyóodim, "Wil mehel len udeleth menedebe i mehóowahal len beneth." Meduth ben udeleth menedebe hotheha udethu i doniyibometh hotheha dóshidihudethu.
4. Id ndi ben, "Wil mehel len miwitheth leneyóoda, i wil thi miwith wohíthiháalish woshumatheth aril mehan with woho leneth i dóralolin ra rabeye leneth Donidim wohohéwan."
5. Izh sháad Lahila láad Bi miwitheth i shumathethehéwan.
6. Di Lahila, "Bíi bre menashub mezhe with i ndi with zhenaleháa hith, ébre methad meshub ben menédeshub meshub ben beyeth wohoháath wa.
7. "Wil dórawedeth Li dan benethoth mehen ra ben beneyóothewan."
8. Dóralolin Lahila beneth núude Donidim woho, i menóhel ben miwitheth.
9. Babel zha hothetho hiwáan--bróo dórawedeth Lahila dan Donithoth woho núuha. Dóralolin Lahila beneth núude Donidim woho.
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Re-Translation
1. Long ago Earth had only one language, and all people spoke it.
2. When people moved to the east, they found a plain in Shinar and they stopped there.
3. They said to themselves, "Let's make many bricks and fire them well." They used bricks instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.
4. And then they said, "Let's make a city for ourselves, and suppose the city had a tall, tall tower so that all people would know us and no-one would scatter us to all the world.
5. But the Holy One came so as to perceive the city and the tower.
6. The Holy One said, "If they who are the same and who speak in the same way have begun to do this, then they will be able to do everything they intend to do, as I see it.
7. "Let Me confuse their language so that they do not understand themselves."
8. The Holy One scattered them from there to the whole Earth, and they stopped building the city.
9. Babel is the name of the place therefore--because the Holy One confused the language of the whole Earth there. The Holy One scattered them from there to the whole Earth.
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