The Tower of Babel
Genesis 11:1-9

(Gen 9:29)   Noah was nine hundred and fifty years old when he died.
       After Noah died the whole earth spoke only one language.   As the people journeyed from the east they found a place to live in the land of Shinar, and they stayed there.  They decided to make bricks and bake them and build a city and a tower that reached to heaven.  They wanted  to make a name for themselves so they wouldn't  be scattered  over the face of the whole earth."

 
The people decided to build a tower that reached to heaven.
 God had told Noah and his sons to  multiply, and fill the earth." (Genesis 9:1)
The people were disobeying God by congregating in one place to become a mighty people.

       The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which they had built.  The LORD saw that the people were one and spoke one language.  The LORD did not like what they were doing and they had left out God.

 
God came down and saw the tower they were building.

       So God decided to go down to the tower and confuse their language so that they would  not be able to understand one another's speech.

 
God confused the language of all the people so
that they could not understand each other and finish building the tower.

       So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.   So the name of the place was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. Then the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

 
The Lord scattered the people and the place
became known as Babel.

         Shem was one hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad which was  two years after the flood.


 (The geneology of Shem can be found in Genesis 11:11-31)

geneology----------A study of the family line.  Those born to a family over a period of time.

begot----------------to give birth to someone.


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