Genesis 11:1-40
The Tower of Babel
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
From Shem to Abram
10 This is the account of Shem.
Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad. 11 And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
12 When Arphaxad had lived 35 years, he became the father of Shelah. 13 And after he became the father of Shelah, Arphaxad lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he became the father of Eber. 15 And after he became the father of Eber, Shelah lived 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he became the father of Peleg. 17 And after he became the father of Peleg, Eber lived 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he became the father of Reu. 19 And after he became the father of Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he became the father of Serug. 21 And after he became the father of Serug, Reu lived 207 years and had other sons and daughters.
22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he became the father of Nahor. 23 And after he became the father of Nahor, Serug lived 200 years and had other sons and daughters.
24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he became the father of Terah. 25 And after he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
26 After Terah had lived 70 years, he became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.
27 This is the account of Terah.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth. 29 Abram and Nahor both married. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, the father of both Milcah and Iscah. 30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no children.
31 Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
32 Terah lived 205 years, and he died in Haran.
Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible...Here, in Genesis, he gives us the story of the Tower of Babel, and the lineage to our first Patriarch Abram (later to become Abraham)...Moses was a writer, and this gives evidence to God in at least two ways...One, Moses was there with God, a servant of God, but also the early writing of his, and the beginning of man beginning to write is evidence of God...
Moses would not only write about the creation, but also he wrote about first three Patriarch's, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob...He also, very importantly writes about a prophet to come later (Deuteronomy 18)...
There are many who say that the world is billions or at least millions of years old, but one interesting fact that always seems left out in this old age universe theory, is when man started to write...Now it seems unusual to tie the age of the earth together with when man started to write, but I think they are in fact linked...Moses could write, and he wrote about the creation and other topics, including the Tower of Babel...One piece of evidence for the creation story is about man and his first writings...How and when he started putting things down and documenting them, whether on scroll, parchments, wood, stone, or later paper...There are those non-believers and for those who believe that man was prehistoric and did not communicate well, did not read or write or could not communicate with others...Moses in Genesis tells that story a little different...The first Son of God, Adam (as did Eve), seemed to be able to communicate with God...Adam and Eve communicated together, and they fell together, when they sinned together in the Garden of Eden...
The evidence, I am alluding to, is that the people who believe that man and the earth is twelve billion years old or even a million years old, fail to give us reasons why man around the world, the Near East, especially Egypt, and areas like China start to write at about the same time...And even though there is no agreement on -if the oldest of writings were in Egypt, China, or somewhere else, -man was communicating and beginning to write wherever he was at all around a century or even a few thousand of years before Moses wrote Genesis...So evolutionists who believe that the universe is between twelve to fourteen billions years old, how or why did man just all start writing about the same time -approximately six to eight thousand years ago...What was man doing the first ten billion years before that?...Looking for something to say, or just looking for something to write on?...It seems very interesting that for the first fourteen billion years, all of man could not read or write, and then within a few hundred of years before Moses writing Genesis that men all over the Near East and China start to write, and are beginning to write...And they do not write in one language (everywhere) they write as one would think they would write, differently (like each sect, section, country, or nation), as according to the Tower of Babel...