About the company

Bavel Translation Services is a company based in Israel, specializing in European and Asian languages.

We provide professional translation services in many language combination out of the variety of languages we are offering, in a broad range of fields.

We employ professional translators, in Israel and abroad, with diverse areas of expertise.

Each translator speaks the language in which he translates as his native tongue, to insure highest translation quality.

Tower of Babel

Babel (Hebrew: Bavel) is the biblical name for the city of Babylon in Mesopotamia.

Its residents named their city "Babel", due to the word combination "Bab-El", meaning "Gateway of the god".

The various languages

According to the Bible, all mankind were the offspring of Adam and therefore the whole world had one language. The story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis (Chapter 11, 1-9) is trying to explain the existence of today's many different languages:

Humanity after the Deluge had one common speech for all people. The people of the earth became skilled in construction and decided to build a tower to reach the heavens. By building the tower they were striving to make a name for themselves instead of worshipping the God who created them.

Due to this open defiance, God stopped their efforts by confusing languages and by scattering the people of the city all over the face of the earth. As a result, people stopped speaking one language and that’s how the various languages were created.

Genesis 11, 1-9:

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech... They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth". But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this... let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other". So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth...That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.