Genesis 11:1-2
The Tower of Babel
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved eastward,11:2 Or from the east; or in the east they found a plain in Shinar11:2 That is, Babylonia and settled there.
Genesis 11:8-9
So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.