Genesis 11: 1 – 9
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech…
3. They said each other, “come, let’s make bricks, and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and bitumen 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 and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and tower that the men 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 – because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Further Reading:
Noah’s descendants – Genesis 9:18 – 19, 10: 1 – 32, 1 Chronicles 1:5 – 27
Noah’s vineyard and drunkenness – Genesis 9:20 – 21
Curse of Ham – Genesis 9:22 – 27
Death of Noah – Genesis 9:28 – 29
The Tower of Babel – Genesis 11: 1 – 9
Shem to Abram – Genesis 11: 10 – 26
Abram’s family – Genesis 11: 27 – 30
For Thought
Some regard the genealogies here as dull and uninteresting, but it is a lesson in how God pays attention to details. He is concerned not only about the general features of your life, but every detail of it. Remember that the next time you feel God does not care.
Contemplation
“…and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.” (Matt. 1:16)
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech…
3. They said each other, “come, let’s make bricks, and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and bitumen 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 and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and tower that the men 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 – because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Further Reading:
Noah’s descendants – Genesis 9:18 – 19, 10: 1 – 32, 1 Chronicles 1:5 – 27
Noah’s vineyard and drunkenness – Genesis 9:20 – 21
Curse of Ham – Genesis 9:22 – 27
Death of Noah – Genesis 9:28 – 29
The Tower of Babel – Genesis 11: 1 – 9
Shem to Abram – Genesis 11: 10 – 26
Abram’s family – Genesis 11: 27 – 30
For Thought
Some regard the genealogies here as dull and uninteresting, but it is a lesson in how God pays attention to details. He is concerned not only about the general features of your life, but every detail of it. Remember that the next time you feel God does not care.
Contemplation
“…and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.” (Matt. 1:16)
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