GENESIS: Beginnings | Part 20Friday 8th May 2020

Genesis 11 v1-9 demonstrates the pride and rebellion of man, as they ignore God's word and attempt to build the Tower of Babel. But God lovingly intervenes to disperse mankind over the face of the earth and restrain their capacity for evil.
Genesis 11:1-9

Genesis 11:1–9

The Tower of Babel

11:1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then 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 dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused1 the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

Footnotes

[1] 11:9 Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused

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