“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.” ... That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan. ... All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.