Until this time, the nations were united by a common language. Noah’s descendants attempt to build a unified culture in a city known as Babel. They constructed a tower as symbol and seal of their common identity. The tower was probably a ziggurat, a vast construction of Clay bricks, on which certain Babylonian peoples housed the shrines of their cities God’s. God does not tolerate this outbreak of idolatry: he confuses the languages of the people and scatters them, thereby making unity impossible.
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