"Bedtime Bible Stories"

From the Book of Genesis
Chapter 11, Verses 1-9

Noah's children did as the Lord said and
filled the earth with people. Many of
these people went to live in an eastward
land they called Babylon.
These people were very proud and
thought they could do anything they wanted to. They all
spoke the same language and worked together. They
decided to build and temple tower so high that it would
reach all the way to heaven.
"Working together on this tower," the people said,
"will keep us together. We won't be scattered all over the
earth."
Together they made bricks for their huge tower. As
the tower became higher and higher, God looked down
from heaven and saw it. "Look at what they are doing,"
said God. "If they are able to do this, soon they will be
able to do anything." God knew that if these people
became too proud and vain, they might become evil again
and forget the lesson He'd taught them with the great
flood.
God came down from heaven and gave the people
of Babylon different languages. Suddenly, they could not
understand one another. They could no longer work
together because no one could understand what anyone
else wanted. All of the people who had been working on
the tower in Babylon quit their work and they scattered
across the world.
From then on, people called the unfinished tower,
the Tower of Babel, which is a word meaning
"confusion." Everyone remembered that this was where
the Lord God Jehovah came down from heaven and
confused the language of man.