Genesis11

I bypassed Genesis 10 because it was hardly more than a chapter telling the generations, and full of little more than impossible to pronounce names. Having given that explanation lets move on to chapter 11.


[1] And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
[There is no way to figure out which one that was.]

[2] And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
[3] And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime
had they for mortar.
[Bet you didn’t know slime could be used to glue stones together
did you?]

[4] And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name,
lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
[5] And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
[It appears here that the LORD is already here. Look at verse 7.]

[7] Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
they may not understand one another's speech.
[Remember in verse 5, the writer said the LORD came down?
According to this, he still has to go down. Too, here it speaks of the
LORD in the plural, not singular as before. Now, I have a question
about this: Why was the LORD so angry with the people back then
when today all over the world there are huge skyscrapers reaching
a hundred floors up? Too, we have planes in the air and ships in
space, so what was it about this tower that caused the LORD to
react this way?]

[8] So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face
of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
[9] Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did
there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did
the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.