Did Our Languages Come From the "Tower of Babel"? - LEGENDS THAT ECHO THE BIBLE'S ACCOUNT

"Once upon a time all the people lived in one large village and spoke with one tongue," according to a story told by a hill tribe in Myanmar.  While building a great tower, the builders "gradually acquired different manners, customs, and way of speech, [eventually] being scattered all over the land."  Similar legends are found among indigenous peoples of Africa, East Asia, Mexico, and elsewhere. 

If the Babel account had been an invention by Moses, the  Hebrew writer of Genesis, would it have cropped up in the legends so far-flung national  and language groups?  That is very unlikely.  Thus, the existence of such diverse legends and tales testifies to the credibility of the Babel account in the Bible.

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