<P> The Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל ‎ ‎ ‎, Migdal Bāḇēl) is an origin myth meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages . </P> <P> According to the story, a united humanity in the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar (שִׁנְעָר ‎). There they agree to build a city and a tower tall enough to reach heaven . God, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world . </P> <P> Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably the Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk by Nabopolassar, the king of Babylonia circa 610 BCE . The Great Ziggurat of Babylon was 91 metres (300 ft) in height . Alexander the Great ordered it to be demolished circa 331 BCE in preparation for a reconstruction that his death forestalled . A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta . </P> <P> And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech . And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there . And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly . And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter . And they said, Go to, 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 . And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded . And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do . Go to, 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 to build the city . </P>

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