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104 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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 that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world. [Lightly edited, mainly to remove unnecessary links).
A large number of construction projects — I speak from experience — can be brought to completion in silence, and an equal number are carried out according to the specifications of a written plan rather than a voice. In construction, chaos arises when there is neither voice nor order nor plan. (p.18)