Genesis 11:8

8. Scattered them Thus, in the days of Peleg, (Genesis 10:25,) was effected the division of the nations . It is possible, however, that the Shemites were not involved in this judgment, and that the primitive Shemitic tongue, from which have descended the Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac, was the language that came out of the ark . Jewish and Gentile traditions relate that lightning split the tower to its foundations; such embellishments of the history would, however, naturally arise from imagination . The present appearance of the Borsippa tower (see on Genesis 11:9) may have given rise to this tradition.