Genesis 11 is the Tower of Babel - humanity’s unified ambition to build a city reaching heaven, God’s confounding of their language, and the scattering of all peoples across the earth.
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Lyrics
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech As they travelled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar And they lived there
They said to one another Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar They said Come, let’s build ourselves a city And a tower whose top reaches to the sky And let’s make a name for ourselves
Lest we be scattered abroad On the surface of the whole earth The LORD came down to see the city and the tower Which the children of men built
Behold they are one people And they all have one language And this is what they begin to do Now nothing will be withheld from them Which they intend to do
Come, let’s go down And there confuse their language That they may not understand one another’s speech So the LORD scattered them abroad from there On the surface of all the earth They stopped building the city
Therefore its name was called Babel Because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth From there, the LORD scattered them abroad On the surface of all the earth
This is the history of the generations of Shem Shem was one hundred years old When he became the father of Arpachshad Two years after the flood
Shem lived and became the father of more sons and daughters Arpachshad lived and became the father of Shelah Shelah lived and became the father of Eber Eber lived and became the father of Peleg
This is the line That led to Terah And Terah became the father of Abram
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Genesis 11 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.