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Babel. One language, one tower, one name, and the builders state the anti-dispersal motive themselves — lest we be scattered abroad.
Geometry, The raw sum: A reading: a hundred aims pointed together count as a hundred; a hundred pointed at random count as about nine. Babel gathers everyone into one aim, whether or not it faces the truth.
In plain words
At Babel the builders, one people with one language, set out to build a city and a tower and make themselves a name, and they say why: so they will not be scattered. It is the first full attempt to gather everyone under one name and one administration. It is placed here by its match with Sumer, not by a date the text gives.
The mechanism
CONSOLIDATION — the first complete instance: tech-reach, gathering under one name, one administration
Scripture
Genesis 11:1–4
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible, 1866 · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:010.The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg
- SourcesSCRIPTURE — Genesis 11:1–4
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