Event

Tower of Babel

Name: Tower of Babel
Location: Babel

Date:: 2245 BC
Duration:: 1 day

With all humanity sharing one language, the people of Babel set out to build a city and a tower reaching to the heavens. God confuses their language so they can no longer understand one another, scattering them across the earth (Genesis 11:1-9).

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Babel

Described in 9

Reference	Verse
Genesis 11:1	And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Genesis 11:2	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.
Genesis 11:3	And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
Genesis 11:4	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.
Genesis 11:5	And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Genesis 11:6	And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Genesis 11:7	Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
Genesis 11:8	So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Genesis 11:9	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.

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