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The Tower of Babel: Genesis 11 Explained

Genesis 11:1-9 describes the construction of the Tower of Babel by a united humanity speaking a single language. The people aimed to build a city and a tower to make a name for themselves, but God intervened by confusing their language and scattering them across the earth. The event explains the origin of different languages and the name 'Babel' reflects the confusion caused by the Lord.

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The Tower of Babel: Genesis 11 Explained

Genesis 11:1-9 describes the construction of the Tower of Babel by a united humanity speaking a single language. The people aimed to build a city and a tower to make a name for themselves, but God intervened by confusing their language and scattering them across the earth. The event explains the origin of different languages and the name 'Babel' reflects the confusion caused by the Lord.

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Genesis 11:1-9

The Tower of Babel

11 Now the whole world had one language and a common


speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in
Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them
thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for
mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a
tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for
ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole
earth.”

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people
were building. 6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same
language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do
will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse
their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and
they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—
because there the LORD confused the language of the whole
world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the
whole earth.

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