Literary Parallels in the Tower of Babel Story (11:1-9)

Literary Parallels in the Tower of Babel Story (11:1-9)

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)