Narrator

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Do you remember the story about Noah? After Noah's family and the animals survived from the flood, Noah's three children had a lot of children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, and... many descendants.

Narrator

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Since there were so many descendants, they split into many groups, but all of them lived happily. At that time, all of them spoke the same language.

Narrator

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One of the groups found a beautiful land called Babylonia, and they started to live there. One day, when people who made bricks were chatting, they thought of an idea.

Person 1

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This is a really beautiful place. I love this city.

Person 2

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Me, too. We had made a lot of bricks to build our city, so, why don't we build something unique with our bricks?

Person 3

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That's a good idea! Let's build a tower!

Person 4

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Let's build the highest tower as a symbol of our land, so that everyone can see it from far away!

Person 5

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Let's show God we can build a tower that soars high in the sky without God's help!

Person 6

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Let's build a tower to reach heaven! Then, God would be surprised!

Narrator

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The people started making a lot of bricks and worked hard to build the tower.

Person 1

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Here's another brick for the tower!

Person 2

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Thanks!

Person 3

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It's going to be a huge tower!

Person 4

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We must build this tower taller and taller to reach heaven!

Person 5

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Look at our amazing tower! We will be famous for this!

Person 6

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It will reach heaven in no time! We will have the tallest and best tower ever!

Narrator

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The tower grew taller and taller. It became a famous landmark, and even God could see it from heaven.

God

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Why are these people so foolish? Do they think they can become gods if their tower reaches heaven?

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God thought that the people could only work together because they all spoke the same language. He thought of an idea.

God

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I will confuse them and make them speak different languages so they cannot work on the tower anymore.

Person 1

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Apakah itu?

Person 2

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What did you say? I can't understand you.

Person 3

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我不明白你的話語的意思。

Person 4

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Qu'est-ce que vous avez dit?

Person 5

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ماذا قلت؟.

Person 6

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なんて言っているんだ？全然わからない！

Narrator

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Everyone was suddenly speaking different languages and couldn't understand each other. As a result, they could not work together anymore. They all stopped building the tower and scattered all over the whole earth.

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The Tower of Babel was never finished. The people learned an important lesson-working together and being humble is more valuable than building the tallest tower.

Narrator

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We shouldn't forget what God did for us and we shouldn't get carried away. The most important thing is not to forget to always thank God.