"Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them." (v. 6)To read this in any other chapter or book, you would admire this civilization. It sounds peaceful and purposeful. Its almost as if God is threatened by their ability. The comment in my Bible mentions that God likely did this because if all of civilization was working together in one place so they weren't following the commandment of filling the earth to take care of it (not sure how well that worked out...). It also says that God's actions promote diversity.
But ya know, I think its just one of those stories that the generations told to explain how different peoples of the world existed. In Genesis, the genealogies are tracing back to creation, so any person hearing these stories over and over would eventually ask, "if they all came from the same family, how are the languages of the world so different?" And the story of the tower of Babel was written!
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