From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth. From Steven Shapin’s LRB review of Scientific Babel: The Language of Science from the Fall of Latin to the Rise of English by Michael Gordin: From God’s point of view, the problem with the Tower of Babel was an excess both of hubris and of technological power. That is why it was called Babel-because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. The story of its construction, given in Genesis 11:19, appears to be an attempt to explain the existence of diverse human languages. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. Tower of Babel, in biblical literature, structure built in the land of Shinar (Babylonia) some time after the Deluge. Babel Linguistics performs literary and technical translation, onsite and remote interpreting, localization of apps and software, copywriting, film subtitling. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. Travelling to a plain in the land of Shinar, the descendants of Noah establish a city and build. We are told that the whole world spoke one language. Its construction takes place following the Flood, which we have analysed here. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. We find the story of the Tower of Babel in the Book of Genesis, chapter 11, verses 1-9. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. "Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 4 Helpful Ways to Love Those Who Are Hard to Love
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