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Babel

Hebrew name for the city of Babylon, chiefly associated with the Tower of Babel which, in the Genesis story in the Old Testament, was erected in the plain of Shinar by the descendants of Noah. It was a ziggurat, or staged temple, seven storeys high (100 m/328 ft) with a shrine of Marduk on the summit. It was built by Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar, and was destroyed when Sennacherib sacked the city in 689 BC.



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For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in all Asia, or Africa either; yet (ere the final truck was put to it) as that great stone mast of theirs may be said to have gone by the board, in the dread gale of God's wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
account of the Deluge; as Babel he had a tower partly erected to his
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
A soft babel of feminine chatter and laughter came from the main room.
Pollyanna by Porter, Eleanor H. View in context
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