Genesis 11:9
They all left that city and went to live in lots of different places, all over the world. That’s how God got people to be in different tribes all over the world. And they called that city Babel. That means mixed up. They gave it that name because God mixed up their languages at that time.
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Genesis 10:10Nimrod controlled the country called Babylonia, and he was the boss over the cities called Babel, and Erek, and Akad.
Genesis 10:25Eber had 2 sons. The 1st son was called Peleg, and his younger brother was called Joktan. That name Peleg means split up. He got that name because all the people split up into different tribes after he was born.
Acts 17:26At first he just made one man, then later he made all of us from that man. All of us in every tribe everywhere were born into that man’s family. And God gave each tribe their own country, and he planned where they will live and how long they will live there.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:6-10
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. 9 Therefore is… Read the whole commentary →