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Genesis 11:1–9 NRSVUE — The Tower of Babel

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Tower of Babel

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Primary biblical text for the city, tower, name-making, divine descent, changed speech, and scattering

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Genesis 11 narrates a single-language community whose speech is changed and whose people are scattered, but the listed scholarship does not establish this as a historical event that created all language diversity.

The text exists and is culturally important. Babylonian tower context is plausible. A literal global language split is not supported by linguistics or archaeology.
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Within Genesis 11, changed speech and scattering provide an origin account for linguistic and cultural diversity.

Answer / theory: In the biblical story, yes. As historical linguistics, no strong evidence supports a recent single-event language split. What supports it: Genesis 11 as sacred text. What is weak or disputed: Scientific language history. Evidence level: Strong as religious tradition; Weak Evidence as linguistics.
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