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Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in Babylon. Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world. There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Īccording to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar ( שִׁנְעָר‎). The Tower of Babel ( Hebrew: מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל‎, Mīgdal Bāḇel) narrative in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth and parable meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563)