Transliteration (provided by Jan Jurčík)
- Wakāna ʼahlu al-ʼarḍi jamīʻāan yatakallamūna ʼawwalāan bilisānin wāḥidin walughahin wāḥidahin.
- Waʼidhi ārtaḥalūā sharqāan wajadūā sahlāan fī ʼarḍi shinʻāra fāstawṭanūā hunāka.
- Faqāla baʻḍuhum libaʻḍin: «hayyā naṣnaʻu ṭūbāan mashwīyāan ʼaḥsana shayin». Fāstabdalūā al-ḥijārata biālṭṭūbi, wālṭṭīna biālzzifti.
- Thumma qālūā: «hayyā nushayyid lʼanfusinā madīnahan waburjāan yablughu raʼsuhu as-samāʼa, fanukhallida lanā āsmāan liʼialāa natashattata ʻalá wajhi al-ʼarḍi kullihā».
- Wanazala ar-rabbu liyashhada al-madīnata wālburja al-ladhayni sharaʻa banū al-bashari fī bināʼiihimā.
- Faqāla ar-rabbu: «ʼin kānūā, kashaʻbin wāḥidin yanṭiqūna bilughahin wāḥidahin, qad ʻamilūā hadhā mundhu ʼawwali al-ʼamri, falan yamtaniʻa ʼidhāan ʻalayhim ʼayyu shayʼin ʻazamūā ʻalá fiʻlihi.
- Hayyā nanzil ʼilayhim wanubalbil lisānahum, ḥattá lāa yafhama baʻḍuhum kalāma baʻḍin».
- Wahakadhā shattatahumu ar-rabbu min hunāka ʻalá saṭḥi al-ʼarḍi kullihā, fakaffūā ʻan bināʼi al-madīnati,
- Lidhalika summiyati al-madīnatu «Bābila» lʼanna ar-rabba balbala lisāna ʼahli kulli al-ʼarḍi, wabiālttālī shattatahum min hunāka fī ʼarjāʼi al-ʼarḍi kullihā.
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