Gen 11:8 | NETfull | STEP | So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

Genesis 11:8

8 So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building ^{▼▼ The infinitive construct לִבְנֹת (livnot, “building”) here serves as the object of the verb “they ceased, stopped,” answering the question of what they stopped doing.} the city.