Post by dlevere on Feb 8, 2024 2:14:49 GMT -4
The Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל, Mīgdal Bāḇel) narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth and parable meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.
According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (שִׁנְעָר).
There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky.
Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (שִׁנְעָר).
There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky.
Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel