Saturday, May 21, 2022

Genesis 11, when language changed

My daughter asked me where all the languages came from, and that made me think of Genesis, the story of the tower of Babel when God saw the evil the people were doing and created confusion by changing their languages to many. 
(this is after God created the flood and made a promise to never do it again; hence, the rainbow)
Here's the history of it! 
I love how when God does something, it's always quick. To the point. Done. There's no beating around the bush.

GENESIS 11

The Tower of Babel
1Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4Then 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.”
5But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6The 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. 7Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9That 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.

It doesn't matter where he put each group, the fact is that they tried to do something they shouldn't so he changed it, and found them places to live.

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