Genesis 10:10

10The beginning of his kingdom was aBabel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in bthe land of Shinar.

Genesis 11:9

9Therefore its name was called cBabel, because there the Lord confused
 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for  confused
the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

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