Let's start our discussion of the Etemenanki with some remarks about this Biblical story. Therefore is the name of it called Bâbel (that is "Confusion") because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Come, let Us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left off building the city. And the Lord said, "Behold, the people are one and they have all one language, and this they begin to do and now nothing will be withheld from them which they have imagined to do. And they said, "Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth."Īnd the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built. And they said one to another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Šin'âr, and they dwelt there.
The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. The story of the Tower of Babel, found in the Biblical book of Genesis, is one of the most famous and beloved legends of mankind.
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