Genesis 11:1
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
Are we going back in time, before Genesis 10?
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Genesis 11:2
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.
Do you think they were on Mount Ararat all this time?
Where were they that it took a journey to find a plain?
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Genesis 11:3
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.
What does the phrase "Go to" mean?
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Genesis 11:4
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.
Why would they want to build a tower? What was a tower suppose to do?
Why did they want it to reach to heaven?
What was the name they wanted to make going to do?
Did they need a name?
What kind of name were they talking about?
Why did they think they would be scattered abroad?
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Genesis 11:5
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Was the tower finished when God came down?
Why were they called "children of men"?
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Genesis 11:6
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.
Do you think this tower was more impressive than anything we have today?
Isn't being one a good thing? Doesn't Jesus want us to be united?
What was wrong with this tower that God would have to intervine?
Why does God say "nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do"?
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Genesis 11:7
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Why do something to there langauge? Why not destroy the tower? Why not send a prophet to warn them?
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Genesis 11:8
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
In light of this verse, what do you think about a one world government?
What do you think God thinks about a one world government?
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Genesis 11:9
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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Genesis 11:10
10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
How old was Shem when the ark was being built?
How old were his brothers when the ark was being built?
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Genesis 11:11
11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:12
12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
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Genesis 11:13
13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:14
14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
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Genesis 11:15
15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:16
16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:
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Genesis 11:17
17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:18
18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:
Reu. Does that name sound different than the rest?
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Genesis 11:19
19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:20
20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
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Genesis 11:21
21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.
Why do you think the life span of people was declining?
How do you think the parents and grandparents felt watching there children and grandchildren die? Eber lived 161 years after the death of Reu (check me on that).
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Genesis 11:22
22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
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Genesis 11:23
23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:24
24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
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Genesis 11:25
25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
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Genesis 11:26
26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
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Genesis 11:27
27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
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Genesis 11:28
28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.
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Genesis 11:29
29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.
Did Nahor marry his niece?
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Genesis 11:30
30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.
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Genesis 11:31
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
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Genesis 11:32
32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.
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