The Hebrew Bible’s account does not provide a height. In the Book of Jubilees 10:21, the Tower of Babel is said to have been 5,433 cubits and two palms, which is about 8,150 feet (2,484 meters). Another pseudepigraphical text, the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch), lists the tower at 463 cubits, or 695 feet (212 meters). According to St. Gregory of Tours in The History of the Franks (c. 593–594) the tower was 200 cubits tall, or 300 feet (91 meters). The ziggurat Etemenanki in Babylon, which some sources insist was the origin of the Tower of Babel, was about 300 feet (91 meters) tall.
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