Babel & God Calls Abram

Shem had children. Ham had children. Japheth had children. Those children had children. Families grew into groups. Groups grew into whole nations. They spread out across the earth. New lands. New homes. The world was filling up with people again.

Nimrod. One of Ham's grandchildren. He was not like other men. He became a great hunter, a strong fighter, and a builder of cities. In a land called Shinar, he raised up walls and towers. One city was called Babel. People came from everywhere to live under his power.

Every person on earth still spoke the same words. One language for everyone. They settled on a flat plain in Shinar. They learned to make bricks from mud and stick them together with hot tar. Then an idea took hold. They would build something the world had never seen.

Gen 10:1