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- Tower of Babel
Biblical pericope about hubris and the origin of languages
The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis 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 . 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... Wikipedia
