![]() Thus, the Quran says that Pharaoh, mockingly and arrogantly asks his associate Haman to build a lofty tower. The purpose of the Tower of Babel was to reach to heaven. The conventional understanding of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) is that humanity arrogantly challenged God s space through invading it by building a 'tower with its head reaching up to the heavens'. Babel was part of the kingdom of Nimrod, a descendent of Noah ( Genesis 10:10 ). 2When they were migrating from the east, they came to a valley in the. 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, ( M)because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. The Tower of Babel was a structure built by humanity after the flood, in the land of Shinar. 1The whole world had the same language and the same words. 7 Come, ( I)let Us go down and there ( J)confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” 8 So ( K)the Lord scattered them abroad from there ( L)over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. The languages within each family (and the people that speak them) have been shown to be genetically related, but few genetic links have been observed between families. Secular linguists are puzzled by the existence of twenty or so language families in the world today. When the writer says in Genesis 11:9, Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth, it’s a putdown. ![]() ![]() The word babel in Hebrew occurs over 200 times in the Old Testament and is translated Babylon in all but a few. 6 And the Lord said, “Indeed ( F)the people are one and they all have ( G)one language, and this is what they begin to do now nothing that they ( H)propose to do will be withheld from them. The Tower of Babel account affirmed by linguistics. The tower they built was called the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:9). 4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower ( B)whose top is in the heavens let us make a ( C)name for ourselves, lest we ( D)be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”ĥ ( E)But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land ( A)of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 11 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. Therefore is the name of it called Babel, becaue the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD catter them abroad.
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