Babel

=Babel=

== Summary: People came across a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there. All of these people spoke the same language. They decided to build a city and a tower to make a name for them selves. The Lord saw the city and said "here they are one people with a single language and now they have started to do this from now on nothing they have a mind to do will be beyond their reach." Then the Lord went and confused their language so they couldn't understand each other and dispersed them all over the earth. ==

= **Discussion Questions:** =
 * 1) Why did the Lord confuse their languages and disperse them all over the Earth?
 * 2) Why do you think the people wanted to make a name for them selves?
 * 3) What do you think the main concept of this story is?
 * 4) Do you think that God's punishment was too much?

Supplementary Material:
Tower of Bable by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Outside Material:
An artist's interpretation of the tower of Bable

An artist's interpretation of the tower of Babel Shinar: in what was later Babylonia ;today is southern Iraq.

Study Guide/Quiz Questions:

 * 1) What are some similarities between this story and the Garden of Eden?
 * 2) In Hebrew the word babel means to confuse why do you think the city was named this?
 * 3) Why did the people build the tower?