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August 1, 2025 90 mins

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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