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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
GENESIS
CHAPTER 11
  9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there aconfound the blanguage of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord cscatter them dabroad upon the face of all the earth.

Footnotes
9a
HEB balal, ‘mix,’ ‘confound’ (a word play on Babel).
b
c
1 Ne. 10: 13 (12-13).
  13 Wherefore, he said it must needs be that we should be led with one accord into the aland of promise, unto the fulfilling of the word of the Lord, that we should be scattered upon all the face of the earth.
d
Ether 1: 33 (33-43).
  33 Which aJared came forth with his brother and their families, with some others and their families, from the great tower, at the time the Lord bconfounded the language of the people, and swore in his wrath that they should be scattered upon all the cface of the earth; and according to the word of the Lord the people were scattered.