《圣经创¨世纪》第11章中说，人类最早的时候都住在一个地方，讲一种语言。他们决定造一座通天的塔，所有的人住在里面，人类再Я也不会分散。上帝不同意灬，他将人类拆散到世界各地，让⊙人类讲不同的语言，从此难于沟通。

因此，"巴别塔"就成了混乱和语言不通的代名词，是《圣经》中最广为人知的故事之一。

And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

他们说，来吧，我们要建造一座城┑和一座塔，塔顶通天，为要传扬我们的名，〥免得我们分散在全地上。

And they said, Come, let us m※ake a∠ town, and a tower whose top will go up┚ as high as heaven; and├ let us make a great ∩n△ame for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face ofΨ the earth.

耶和华降临， 要看看世人所建造的城和塔。

And the Lord came down to see the town and the ◈tower which the children of men we〾re building.

耶和华说， 看哪，他们成为一样的人民，都※是一样的言语，如今既作起а这事来，以后他们所要作的事就没有不成就的了。

And the Lord said, 々See, th₪큐ey are all one people and have all one language;→ and this is∞ onδly the start of what they mΨay do: and now it will not be |︴（）〔〕possible ≠to keep them ⿻from any purpose of theirs.

我们下去，在那里变乱他们的口音，Ⅳ使他们的言语彼此〆不通☞。

Come, let us go down and take away the s┎ense of their language, so that they will not bじe able to make them♀selves clear to one another.

于是，耶和华使他们从那里分散在全地上。他们就停工，不造那城了。

So the Lord God sent them away i▒nto every part of the ™earth: and they gave up building their town.

因为耶和华在▫那里变乱ㄨ天下人的言语，使众人分散在全地上，所以那城名叫巴别（就是变乱的意思）。

So it was named Babel, beⅦcause there the Lord took away the sense of all languages҉ and from there the ※Lord sent 〣them ◑↔↕▪away over all the face o™f the earth.