The document describes how in Genesis, all humans originally spoke the same language but decided to build a city and tower to make a name for themselves. God saw this as a potential first step towards people stopping at nothing, so God scattered the people across the earth and made them speak different languages. The Tower of Babel story explains how different languages developed from originally having just one universal language.

1. Who is it all about?
Have you ever prayed about it?

2. Genesis 11:1-8 (The Message)
1-2 At one time, the whole Earth spoke
the same language. It so happened that
as they moved out of the east, they came
upon a plain in the land of Shinar and
settled down
3 They said to one another, "Come, let's
make bricks and fire them well." They
used brick for stone and tar for mortar.

3. Genesis 11:1-8 (The Message)
4 Then they said, "Come, let's build
ourselves a city and a tower that reaches
Heaven. Let's make ourselves famous so we
won't be scattered here and there across
the Earth."
5 God came down to look over the city and
the tower those people had built.

4. Genesis 11:1-8 (The Message)
6-9 God took one look and said, "One
people, one language; why, this is only a
first step. No telling what they'll come up
with next—they'll stop at nothing! Come,
we'll go down and garble their speech so
they won't understand each other." Then
God scattered them from there all over the
world. And they had to quit building the
city. That's how it came to be called Babel,
because there God turned their language
into "babble." From there God scattered
them all over the world.

5. Tower of Babel

6. Daniel 1:1-2 (The Message)
1-2 It was the third year of King
Jehoiakim's reign in Judah when King
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon declared war
on Jerusalem and besieged the city. The
Master handed King Jehoiakim of Judah
over to him, along with some of the
furnishings from the Temple of God.
Nebuchadnezzar took king and
furnishings to the country of Babylon, the
ancient Shinar. He put the furnishings
in the sacred treasury.

7. Shinar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shinar (Hebrew ‫ שִׁנְעָר‬Šin`ar, Septuagint Σεννααρ Sennaar) is a broad designation
applied to Mesopotamia, occurring eight times in the Hebrew Bible. Possible
derivations from Semitic that have been suggested include Shene nahar "two rivers"
and Shene or "two cities", but neither is certain.[1]
In the Book of Genesis 10:10, the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom is said to have been
"Babel, and Uruk, and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar." The following
chapter, 11:2, states that Shinar was a plain settled after the flood, where mankind,
still speaking one language, built the Tower of Babel. In Genesis 14:1,9 Shinar is the
land ruled by king Amraphel, who reigned in Babylon. "Shinar" is further
mentioned in Joshua 7:21; Isaiah 11:11; Daniel 1:2; and Zechariah 5:11, as a general
synonym for Babylonia.
If Shinar included both Babylon ("Babel") and Erech, then "Shinar" broadly
denoted southern Babylonia. Any cognate relation with Šumer, an Akkadian name
used for a non-Semitic people who called themselves Kiengir, is not simple to
explain and has been the subject of varied speculation. The Egyptian term for
Babylonia / Mesopotamia was Sngr (Sangara),[2] identified with the Sanhar of the
Amarna letters by Sayce.[3]

8. Let me tell you a
little secret!

9. Isaiah 47:8 (NIV)
"Now then, listen, you wanton creature,
lounging in your security
and saying to yourself,
'I am, and there is none besides me.
I will never be a widow
or suffer the loss of children.'

10. Isaiah 47:10 (NIV)
You have trusted in your wickedness and
have said, 'No one sees me.'
Your wisdom and knowledge mislead
you when you say to yourself, 'I am, and
there is none besides me.'