(Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another.
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Examples for "Babel "
1 The fault is not yours; it is that of the social Babel .
2 Soccer:Liverpool forward Ryan Babel has agreed a move to German side Hoffenheim.
3 But a great deal of effort has been devoted to explaining Babel .
4 He published the Russians, Bunin and Babel , and later the great émigrés.
5 It is doomed to confusion, because it reverses the judgment of Babel .
1 There could have been nothing like it since the Tower of Babel .
2 Where could this Tower of Babel , this crazy cacophony of tongues be?
3 The tech industry is doing its best to topple the Tower of Babel .
4 The largest miniature represents the building of the Tower of Babel .
5 Elevators haven't quite been installed in the Tower of Babel yet.
6 Only builders of the Tower of Babel know the awfulness of its overthrow.
7 The first were called Jaredites, and came directly from the Tower of Babel .
8 A new opera, by BALFE, is spoken of; subject, the Tower of Babel .
9 She asked, Was there really anything like the Tower of Babel ?
10 The Tower of Babel is thus carried up one storey higher.
11 He calculates on rebuilding the Tower of Babel , and dethroning God.
12 If anything, today's Tower of Babel is flat but incredibly wide.
13 This Tower of Babel , when shall we have paid for it?
14 What a misfortune to mankind that the Tower of Babel was ever commenced!
15 NASA is the new Tower of Babel , I tell you.
16 On the contrary, he seemed quite at his ease in this Tower of Babel .
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