Season 3 Episode 11 – You’re a Babel on MC!A’ight So Boom! - 4:55Read Genesis 11 1-4 - 8:02The Unity of the WorldOne Language (lip, meaning manner of speech)One Speech (word)They MovedMigrated (pull up tent pegs)Found (to stumble upon)Settled (to sit)Man’s Technological Advances (let us …)Brick BricksBake bakingThe New HotnessBricks vs. StoneBitumen vs. MortarMan’s Self-Determined Purpose (let us …)Build a CityMake a Tower to the heavens (skies or dwelling place of God?)Make a name for ourselves (autonomy, a sleight against God’s naming?))Keep from being dispersedWhat was man really trying to do/show here?Genesis 11:1–9 also mirrors the attempt of humanity in the garden to achieve power independently of God. - K. A. Mathews, Genesis 1-11:26, vol. 1A, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1996), 467.Read Genesis 11 5-7 - 25:53The LORD comes down to see what this tall tower the LORD states what the narrator has already told usThey are one people (‘am vs. goy)They have one languageOnly the beginning (this initial disobedience as a community)No limit to what they will be able to do (meaning?)They (Plural) decided what they wanted to doGo downConfuse the languageMess up their common speechHe who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.  The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ps 2:4.The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ge 6:5.Read Genesis 11 8-9 - 41:27The LORD’s command carried outDispersedAll over the earthLeft off building the cityResultsThe new name called BabelThe LORD confused their languageThe LORD dispersed them over the face of the all the earthThis place of human accomplishment becomes a place of judgment and ridicule (name)Read Genesis 11 10-26 - 44:59Almost back to the original formulaWe go back to Shem’s DescendantsThe same as Genesis 10 up until EberGenesis 10 presented Joktan, Genesis 11 presents PelegEber leads us to the next important personNote the ages of the people and when their children are bornNote the common refrain of ‘end he died’ is not presentWe end with three again (Abram, Nahor and Haran)Read Genesis 11 27-29 - 57:51Focusing on Terah and his generationsSome Family historyLot is introduced - big later in GenesisThe death of HaranUr of the Chaldeans called outAbram’s and Nahor’s wives called out - importantSarai Abram’s wifeMilcah Harlan’s wifeHaran (who died) are Milcah and her sister’s (Ischa’s) Father Read Genesis 11 30-32 - 1:05:50Details on Sarai - not blessed?Migration of the groupTerah (Patriarch)Abram (Son)Sarai (Abram’s wife)Lot (Torah’s Grandson)Migration with the intent Canaan or Bust (heard of and important)The Settled (Like the Plain of Shinar) in HaranTerah dies in Haran (205 years)Jasmine’s Tea - 1:12:42Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/avbe/night-in-kyotoLicense code: WDUZARYUHWMKKMU3

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