About how high was tower of babel ?

Question:The Book of Jubilees contains one of the most detailed accounts found anywhere of the Tower.

And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the bricks served them for stone, and the clay with which they cemented them together was asphalt which comes out of the sea, and out of the fountains of water in the land of Shinar. And they built it: forty and three years were they building it; its breadth was 203 bricks, and the height [of a brick] was the third of one; its height amounted to 5433 cubits and 2 palms, and [the extent of one wall was] thirteen stades [and of the other thirty stades].(Jubilees 10:20-21, Charles' 1913 translation)

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And they began to build, and in the fourth week they made brick with fire, and the bricks served them for stone, and the clay with which they cemented them together was asphalt which comes out of the sea, and out of the fountains of water in the land of Shinar. And they built it: forty and three years were they building it; its breadth was 203 bricks, and the height [of a brick] was the third of one; its height amounted to 5433 cubits and 2 palms, and [the extent of one wall was] thirteen stades [and of the other thirty stades].(Jubilees 10:20-21, Charles' 1913 translation)

The reader of Genesis doesn't learn exactly how high the Tower was. But it must've been pretty high to threaten God, and to make him destroy it and scatter the people.

I think that if you read the text the king, shot an arrow up into the clouds when he was on top of the tower. If that is true then it seems logical that the tower was not as high as the clouds yet. So that would make it under 10,000 feet.

currently the tower of babel is a figurative thing, it is and has been happening around us for all time, babel refers to the language being misunderstood

in the bible the actual tower was being built to be able to see God, God then supposedly destroyed the tower and caused the breaking down of our languages to where people speaking the same language cannot understand one another because of the different dialects of slang and also different languages were developed

I firmly believe that the truth is that this tower was to escape this planet by building a landing pad for extraterrestrials who had paid a visit previously but the rulers governing destroyed it and began the confusion in language from that point on to keep the people separated.

people have & will always confused God with the rulers or government, it's their poor understanding that causes this phenomenon

The Tower of Babel was built by Keebler elves. As a tree-dwelling race, they were unfamiliar with the stone and feathers used by the Tribes. The kept trying to build towers out of twigs and pastry, which did not work very well at all.

Eventually, in one last valiant effort to appease their masters, the elves built a tower out of soft-bake cookies. To their elvish eyes, it was a mighty monolith! By human measure, it was about nine feet tall. The King was disappointed at the sight of this mushy cookie stack, and he kicked it over with a sullen sweep of his royal foot. In the retelling of the elves -- which became the Pentateuch -- the tower was struck down by bolts from Heaven. (Elves tend to exaggerate...)

It doesn't matter, it was built on presumption that doing so would allow seeing God and thus was knocked down