( R) From there the Lord scattered ( S) them over the face of the whole earth. The multiplicity of nations represented at Pentecost is another link to Babel. 9 That is why it was called Babel ( P)-because there the Lord confused the language ( Q) of the whole world. 6), is the same word used in the Septuagint version of the Babel story in Genesis 11:7: Come, let us go down and confuse Septuagint: suncheo their language there. 7 Come, let us ( L) go down ( M) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” ( N)Ĩ So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, ( O) and they stopped building the city. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language ( K) they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. At the moment, we have Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic, Levantine Arabic (Syrian Arabic), and Swahili language libraries. The Tower of Babel was actually an evil empire that kept expanding and conquering one country after. Ben Witherington III explains that what happened at Pentecostspeaking in tonguesovercame the effect of the Tower of Babelthe confusion of language. The Arabic was one language before the Tower of Babel. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, ( F) so that we may make a name ( G) for ourselves otherwise we will be scattered ( H) over the face of the whole earth.” ( I)ĥ But the Lord came down ( J) to see the city and the tower the people were building. Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting Tower of Babel is on display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. 2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar ( B) and settled there.ģ They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks ( C) and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, ( D) and tar ( E) for mortar. 11 Now the whole world had one language ( A) and a common speech. 34 The reader will notice that the story of Babel is not about the plurality of religions but indeed about the multiplicity of languages and cultures.
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