God plans to reverse this curse in the future. Speaking different languages separates people to this day. (Babel sounds like the Hebrew word for confusion.) The end of language barriers They stopped building the city and the tower. They began to spread out as God had wanted them to all along. So families who spoke the same language began to group together. If one worker asked another to pass a brick, his words didn’t make sense to the other one. They were suddenly talking different languages.
“Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech” ( Genesis 11:6-7).Īfter God did this miracle, different groups of people could not understand each other. So He decided to do something to slow them down. God didn’t want things to get as bad as they were before the Flood so soon. Working together, people would do worse and worse things. “Now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.” “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do,” God said. He knew that if they kept going the way they were going, things would soon get worse. God could tell that the people were becoming like the people before the Flood. They were listening to the rebellious ideas of the devil, just as Adam and Eve had. People didn’t want to obey God, and they didn’t want God to punish them.
Maybe they thought they could build a tower so tall, even a flood couldn’t affect them. They didn’t spread out as God wanted them to. They wanted to all stay together in a big city.
In the city they wanted to build “a tower whose top is in the heavens.” And many of them decided to build a great city. God told Noah and his sons, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” A city and a tower Everyone alive came from the eight people who survived the Flood on the ark. After the great Flood in Noah’s day, many children were born.
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