Season 3 Episode 11 – You’re a Babel on MC!
A’ight So Boom! - 4:55
Read Genesis 11 1-4 - 8:02
The Unity of the World
One Language (lip, meaning manner of speech)
One Speech (word)
They Moved
Migrated (pull up tent pegs)
Found (to stumble upon)
Settled (to sit)
Man’s Technological Advances (let us …)
Brick Bricks
Bake baking
The New Hotness
Bricks vs. Stone
Bitumen vs. Mortar
Man’s Self-Determined Purpose (let us …)
Build a City
Make 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 dispersed
What 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 - 25:53
The LORD comes down to see what this tall tower
the LORD states what the narrator has already told us
They are one people (‘am vs. goy)
They have one language
Only 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 do
Go down
Confuse the language
Mess up their common speech
He 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 - 41:27
The LORD’s command carried out
Dispersed
All over the earth
Left off building the city
Results
The new name called Babel
The LORD confused their language
The LORD dispersed them over the face of the all the earth
This place of human accomplishment becomes a place of judgment and ridicule (name)
Read Genesis 11 10-26 - 44:59
Almost back to the original formula
We go back to Shem’s Descendants
The same as Genesis 10 up until Eber
Genesis 10 presented Joktan, Genesis 11 presents Peleg
Eber leads us to the next important person
Note the ages of the people and when their children are born
Note the common refrain of ‘end he died’ is not present
We end with three again (Abram, Nahor and Haran)
Read Genesis 11 27-29 - 57:51
Focusing on Terah and his generations
Some Family history
Lot is introduced - big later in Genesis
The death of Haran
Ur of the Chaldeans called out
Abram’s and Nahor’s wives called out - important
Sarai Abram’s wife
Milcah Harlan’s wife
Haran (who died) are Milcah and her sister’s (Ischa’s) Father
Read Genesis 11 30-32 - 1:05:50
Details on Sarai - not blessed?
Migration of the group
Terah (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 Haran
Terah dies in Haran (205 years)
Jasmine’s Tea - 1:12:42
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