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- 1. a confused noise made by a number of voices: "the babel of voices on the road"
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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