Conclusion of Men Build a Big Tower

Jehovah was not pleased with this building.  God wanted the people to move out and live all over the earth. But the people said: 'Come one! Let's build a tower so high that its top will reach into the heavens.  Then we will famous!'  The people wanted honor for themselves, not for God.

So God made the people stop building the tower. Do you know how he did it?  By suddenly causing people to speak different languages, instead of just one.  No longer did the builders understand one  another. This is why their city came to be called Ba'bel, or Babylon, meaning "Confusion." 

The people now began to move away from Ba'bel. Groups of persons who spoke the same language went to live together in other parts of the earth.

Genesis10:1, 8-10; 11:1-9. 

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