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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Translations of the Tower of Babel</title> <meta name="description" content="Versions of the Tower of Babel story in over 620 different languages and alphabets." />  <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-WB7PSHBG');</script>  <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.omniglot.com/images/logos/omniglot_thumbnail.jpg" /> <meta property="og:type" content="https://www.facebook.com/pg/Omniglot-100430558332117/posts/" /> <link href="/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="https://the.gatekeeperconsent.com/cmp.min.js" data-cfasync="false"></script> <script async src="//www.ezojs.com/ezoic/sa.min.js"></script> <script> window.ezstandalone = window.ezstandalone || {}; ezstandalone.cmd = ezstandalone.cmd || []; </script><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> // DOM ready $(function() { // Create the dropdown base $("<select />").appendTo("nav"); // Create default option "Select a letter" $("<option />", { "selected": "selected", "value" : "", "text" : "Select a letter" }).appendTo("nav select"); // Populate dropdown with menu items $("nav a").each(function() { var el = $(this); $("<option />", { "value" : el.attr("href"), "text" : el.text() }).appendTo("nav select"); }); // To make dropdown actually work // To make more unobtrusive: http://css-tricks.com/4064-unobtrusive-page-changer/ $("nav select").change(function() { window.location = $(this).find("option:selected").val(); }); }); </script> </head> <body> <div id="header">  <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-WB7PSHBG" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>  <p><a href="/index.htm"><img src="/images/logos/header_omniglot.png" width="600" height="70" alt="Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages" /></a></p> <ul> <li><a href="/index.htm">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/index.htm">Alphabets</a></li> <li><a href="/conscripts/index.htm">Constructed scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/languages.htm">Languages</a></li> <li><a href="/language/phrases/phraseindex.htm">Phrases</a></li> <li><a href="/language/numbers/index.htm">Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/language/ml.htm">Multilingual Pages</a></li> <li><a href="/search.htm">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/news/index.htm">News</a></li> <li><a href="/about.htm">About</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.htm">Contact</a></li> </ul></div> <div id="bodybox"> <div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-162"></div> <script> ezstandalone.cmd.push(function() { ezstandalone.showAds(162); }); </script><div id="body"> <p><img src="../images/babel/babel.gif" alt="Babel" width="132" height="196" style="float:right;" /> </p> <h1>The Tower of Babel</h1> <p>The tale of the Tower of Babel, from Genesis 11: 1-9, is an "explanation" of why there are so many different languages. You can find the story in some of those languages by following the links below. Having a single text in a variety of languages is a good way to see similarities and differences between those languages. </p> <p>The Tower of Babel did in fact exist: it was a seven-stage ziggurat (stepped pyramid) with a temple to the god Marduk at the top. It was called <em>Etemenanki</em>, or 'the temple of the platform between heaven and earth', and was built in the city of Babylon sometime during the 6th or 7th century BC. </p> <hr /> <p><a href="#lang">Index by language</a> | <a href="langfam.htm">Index by language family</a> </p> <a id="top"></a> <a id="lang"></a> <hr /> <h2>Index by language</h2> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="#a">A</a></li> <li><a href="#b">B</a></li> <li><a href="#c">C</a></li> <li><a href="#d">D</a></li> <li><a href="#e">E</a></li> <li><a href="#f">F</a></li> <li><a href="#g">G</a></li> <li><a href="#h">H</a></li> <li><a href="#i">I</a></li> <li><a href="#j">J</a></li> <li><a href="#k">K</a></li> <li><a href="#l">L</a></li> <li><a href="#m">M</a></li> <li><a href="#n">N</a></li> <li><a href="#o">O</a></li> <li><a href="#p">P</a></li> <li><a href="#q">Q</a></li> <li><a href="#r">R</a></li> <li><a href="#s">S</a></li> <li><a href="#t">T</a></li> <li><a href="#u">U</a></li> <li><a href="#v">V</a></li> <li><a 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