圣經故事（6）：The Tower of Babel
Once upon a time all the world spoke a single language and used the same words. As men journeyed in the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them hard'； they used bricks for stone and bitumen for mortar. 'Come,' they said, 'let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and make a name for ourselves； or we shall be dispersed all over the earth.' Then the Lord came down to see the city and tower which mortal men had built, and he said, 'Here they are, one people with a single language, and now they have started to do this； henceforward nothing they have a mind to do will be beyond their reach. Come, let us go down there and confuse their speech, so that they will not understand what they say to one another.' So the Lord dispersed them from there all over the earth, and they left off building the city. That is why it is called Babel, because the Lord there made a babble of the language of all the world；from that place the Lord scattered men all over the face of the earth.
巴別城塔
從前，世界是上說的是同一種語言，用的是同一種文字。當人們向東遷徙來到了示拿地方的一片平原上，就停了下來定居。他們大家商議說：“來罷，我們來燒制一些磚塊。”他們用磚當石頭，瀝青作灰泥。“來吧，”他們說：“我們給自己建造一座城市和造一座頂端入云的高塔以留名后世。不然，我們就會流散各地，無所依歸了。”不久，天主下來察看世人修建的這座城池和高塔，他說：“他們在這兒是一個使用同一語言的種族。如今他們開始建造城閣，從此他們只要下了決心，就什么事都難不倒他們了。來，我們到他們那兒去，弄亂他們的語言。這樣，他們就彼此不能溝通了。”于是，天主把他們分散到世界各地，他們修城筑塔的工程也就半途而廢了。這就是為什么這座城叫做巴別，因為天主在那里使世上的語言變成了彼此聽不懂的聲音。上帝從那里把地上的人都分散到世界的各個角落。
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