And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. {language: Heb. lip.} {speech: Heb. words}

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. {Babel: that is, Confusion}

These {are} the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

These {are} the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.