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Another answer from our community:Genesis 11:3--10 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 5. And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6. And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8. So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9. 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.

The reason people of the earth speak different languages is because of Nimrod's rebellion against God with the Tower of Babel:-

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Gen 11:1-9 NET The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary. (v.2) When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. (v.3) Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.) (v.4) Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name [BBE: "a great name"] for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth." (v.5) But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building. (v.6) And the LORD said, "If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. (v.7) Come, let's go down and confuse their language so they won't be able to understand each other."(v.8) So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city. (v.9) That is why its name was called Babel - because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

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