那时，天下人的口音言语都是一样。……他们商量说，“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．免得我们分散在全球上。”耶和华说，“看啊，他们成为一样的人民，都是一样的语言，如今既做起来，以后他们要做的事就没有不成的了。我们下去，在那里变乱他们的口音，使他们的言语不通。” ——《圣经·创世纪》 At that time, the voices of the world were the same. ...They consulted and said, “Come on, let us build a city and a tower. The towers are sky-topped to proclaim us, so that we may not be scattered throughout the world,” said the LORD. “Look, they are the same. The people are all the same language. Now that they have done it, there is nothing that they can do in the future. Let us go down, and there we will change their accent, and make their words impassable.” - The Bible, Genesis