Towers of Babel
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.” Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building. Genesis 11:4-5 Students of the Bible point to the story of the Tower of Babel as the source of the various languages in the world. The story goes like this: After the world was destroyed by the Great Flood, the descendants of Noah and his sons all spoke the same language. As the population grew, people began to move to new places and form communities. Several generations later, descendants of Noah settled in the region of modern-day Iraq. They wanted to build a tower to the heavens as a symbol of pride in the city they had created. When God saw this, He understood that if men were united in purpose, there was nothing that could stop them, so he confused their languages so that they could not...