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   Tower of Babel

   /ˈbeɪb(ə)l/

   • 1. (in the Bible) a tower built in an attempt to reach heaven, which God frustrated by making its builders speak different languages so that they could not understand one another (Genesis 11:1–9).

   Word Origin Babel from Hebrew Bāḇel ‘Babylon’, from Akkadian bāb ili ‘gate of god’.

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