| Human Plans (1-4) | Divine Action (5-9) |
| One language, same vocabulary (1) | One people, one language (6) |
| Settled there (2) | Confuse language there (7) |
| Let us make bricks (3) | Let us go down (7) |
| Let us build a city (4) | Quit building the city (8) |
| Make a name (4) | Called its name (9) |
| Lest we be scattered around the earth (4) | YHWH scattered them around the earth (9) |
