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What Came Before:
AFTER THE GREAT FLOOD, the family of Noah and those who
came after him grew in number until, as the years went on, the earth began to be
full of people once more. But there was one great difference between the people
who had lived before the flood and those who lived after it. Before the flood,
all the people stayed close together, so that very many lived in one land and no
one lived in other lands. So far as we know, all the people on the earth before
the great flood, lived in the lands where the two great rivers flowed, called
the Tigris and Euphrates. This part of the world was very full of people; but
few or none crossed the mountains on the east, or the desert on the west; and
the great world beyond was without people living in it. After the flood,
families began to move from one place to another, seeking for themselves new
homes. Some went one way, and some another.
This moving about was a part of God's plan to have the whole earth used for the
home of men, and not merely a small part of it. Then, too, a family who wished
to serve God, and do right, could go away to another land if the people around
them became evil; and in a place by themselves they could bring up their
children in the right way...
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THE TOWER THAT WAS NEVER FINISHED
Genesis 10 -11
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FROM MOUNT ARARAT, where the ark rested, many of the people moved southward into
a country between two great rivers, the rivers Tigris and Euphrates: and there
they built houses for themselves. They undertook to build a great city, which
should rule all the peoples around them. They found that the soil in that
country could be made into bricks, and that the bricks could be heated and made
hard; so that it was easy to build houses to live m, and walls around their city
to make it strong against enemies.
And the people said to each other, " Let us build a great tower, that shall
stand on the earth and shall reach up to the sky; so that we may be kept
together, and not scattered abroad on the earth."
So they began to build their great tower out of bricks, which they piled up, one
story above another. But God did not wish all the people on the earth to live
close together, just as they had lived before the great flood. God knew that if
they all kept together, those that were wicked would lead away from God those
that were good, and all the world would become evil again, as it had been before
the flood.
This was the way that God kept people from staying in one place. While they were
building this great city and tower which they intended to rule the world, God
caused their speech to change. At that time, all men were speaking one language,
so that everybody could understand what every other person said.
God caused men to change their language, perhaps not all at once, but by
degrees, little by little. After a time, the people that belonged to one family
found that they could not understand what the people of another family were
saying, just as now Germans do not understand English, and French people cannot
talk to Italians, until they have learned their different languages.
As people began to grow apart in their speech they moved away into other places,
where the families speaking one language could understand each other. So the men
who were building the city and the great tower could no longer understand each
other's speech; they left the building without finishing it, and many of them
went away into other lands. So the building stayed forever unfinished.
And the city was named Babel, a word which means "confusion." It was afterward
known as Babylon, and for a long time was one of the greatest cities of that
part of the world, even after many of its people had left it to live elsewhere.
Part of the people who left Babylon went up to the north, and built a city
called Nineveh, which became the ruling city of a great land called Assyria,
whose people were called Assyrians.
Another company went away to the west, and settled by the great river Nile, and
founded the land of Egypt, with its strange temples and pyramids, its Sphynx,
and its monuments.
Another company wandered northwest until they came to the shore of the great sea
which we call the Mediterranean Sea. There they founded the cities of Sidon and
Tyre, where the people were sailors, sailing to countries far away, and bringing
home many things from other lands to sell to the people of Babylon, and Assyria,
and Egypt, and other countries.
So after the flood, the earth again became covered with people living in many
lands and speaking many languages.
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