TT #78 · Parashas Noach · Seventh Aliyah · Passuk 11:4
And they said: “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
Torah Temimah points to the three factions among the builders (Sanhedrin 109a).
E-Daf image — Sanhedrin 109a (size=3)
English: “Come, let us build” — The generation of the Dispersion divided into three groups: one said “Let us ascend and dwell there,” one said “Let us ascend and worship idols,” and one said “Let us ascend and wage war.”
Custom (three motives within the Tower generation).
The builders were not uniform; three distinct intentions drove the project, each punished accordingly.