"Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the L-RD did there confound the language of all the earth and from thence did the L-RD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth." Genesis 11:9
People will substitute confusion for confound. Confound is to overflow, to mix. The common language that everyone spoke was mixed with new sounds so the total population could not understand one another, only families could understand one another but not the whole population. Confusion is an unnatural mixture, such as bestiality. Words and unintelligible sound would be unnatural mixture, where no one could understand. Elsewhere in scripture it says "G-d is not the author of confusion"
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