Babel

=Babel=

Summary:
====Babel, which is located on page 68, is a story about how languages first began. Believe it or not, there was once a time when everyone spoke the same language. Although, this all changed when people took a journey to Shinar and settled there. Shinar is located in the East and is today Southern Iraq. The people who began to settle in Shinar, wanted to make a name for themselves. They decided that they would do this by building themselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens. The people thought that if they did this, they would resist being dispersed over the face of the Earth. One day, the Lord went down to see what the people had built. When he saw the city and the tower he said, "Here they are, one people with a single language, and now they have started to do this; from now on nothing they have a mind to do will be beyond their reach. Come, let us go down there and confuse their language, so that they will not understand what they say to one another." After saying this, the Lord dispersed the people. Therefore, this is how different languages arose. ====

Supplementary Material:
====-The city and the tower was named Babel, because there the Lord made a babble of a language of the whole world. It was from that place the Lord scattered the people over the face of the earth. ====

The Tower of Babel[| link].






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