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26 one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. " (Genesis 11:4-7). . This passage shows that according to Jewish history as well the Pabylonians were noted for their skill in raising lofty buildings, for it speaks of a bigh tower having been constructed by them. The other particulars given in this passage appear more to be of the nature of myths, but this much can be safely gleaned that the people of Babylon had aquired great skill in constructing lofty buildings which seemed to rise to the very skies. . In the Holy Quran too something similar has been said in regard to the Pharoah, but with this remarkable difference that in the Old Testament an absurd idea has been attributed to God that He was afraid that man, by raising such a lofty structure, may aquire some of the grandeur that should belong only to God, while the Holy Quran attributes this ridiculous idea to the Pharoah, which is not impossible, It says: فاوقدلى بهَامَانُ عَلَى الطَّيْنِ ، فَاجْعَلْ فِي صَرْحاً ، لَعَلي لى الطَّلِعُ إِلَى إِلَهِ مُوسى ، وَإِنِّي لَأَظُنُّهُ مِنَ الْكَاذِبِينَ . by i. e. when Moses put his claim before the Pharoah, the latter sent for his engineer, named Haamaan, and