the tower of babel
Created | Updated Dec 13, 2004
- account taken from Genesis (paraphrased)
God came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built. God said, "Now, these people are united, all speaking the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do. They will be able to do anything they want. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other."
So God scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. The place is called Babel* since that is where the LORD confused the language of the whole world. So the LORD caused them to spread out from there over the whole world
the history of the tower of babel - from creation* to conception*
At this time the whole world spoke one language, and everyone used the same words. As people moved from the east(see note.6), they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.
God came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built. God said, "Now, these people are united, all speaking the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do. They will be able to do anything they want. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not be able to understand each other."
So God scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. The place is called Babel* since that is where the LORD confused the language of the whole world. So the LORD caused them to spread out from there over the whole world
