Tower of Babel
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title:
Tower of Babel
text:
The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain the existence of different languages and cultures. According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language migrates to Shinar, where they agree to build a great city with a tower that would reach the sky. Yahweh, observing these efforts and remarking on humanity's power in unity, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other and scatters them around the world, leaving
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description:
Mythical structure in the Hebrew Bible
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
date created:
2001-12-04T18:43:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T17:35:12Z
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