Lesson 5:
a table & a tower
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Bitumen
Thick, sticky, black substance used to make bricks stick together in ancient times. The substance used to make bricks stick together. For the Israelites, it was bitumen. Today, we use sand, cement and water as mortar. To be spread out in various places. Very well
Mortar
Dispersed
Thoroughly
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As we mentioned in lesson 1, the Bible is a big book made up of many books—like Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Each of those books has lots of little stories that are all telling the Biggest Story. We also learn the Biggest Story from the songs, laws, letters, and lists we find in the Bible. The lists are called genealogies (family trees). Have you ever seen your family tree? It usually will have a long list of names. Like your mom, your cousin, and your grandpa.
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Well, Genesis 10 records a list of seventy names. This list is sometimes called the Table of Nations. The word table is just another name for list. This table starts with the sons of Noah—Shem, Ham, and Japheth. How would you like to be called Ham? “Hey, Ham, can you make me a ham sandwich?” Ham (the person, not the sandwich) had lots of children. So did his brothers. From them came all the nations—tribes that spread across the earth after the flood.
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All of these different nations, who all spoke the same language, came up with a brilliant idea. (Or they thought it was.) “Let’s stay in one place and build a great city and a tall tower!” There is nothing wrong with building something great and tall. Noah built something really big. The problem is that God told them to fill the earth—not stay in one place. Plus, they wanted to show off. “Look how amazing we are!” Well, God hates pride and disobedience. Do you know what pride is? It's when you think you're more important than everyone else and God. These people showed us an example of that. They thought and acted like they were number one and God and everyone else was number two. But God destroyed their prideful plan by confusing their language. The place where it happened was called Babel, which means “confusion.” And God scattered them from that place so they filled the earth.
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Scripture Reading
GENESIS 11:1-9
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Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and for . Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called , because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Shinar
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Babel
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Memory Verse
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9
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Lesson 5:
a table & a tower
Let's go!
words to know
In This Lesson
CLICK TO HEAR!
Bitumen
Thick, sticky, black substance used to make bricks stick together in ancient times. The substance used to make bricks stick together. For the Israelites, it was bitumen. Today, we use sand, cement and water as mortar. To be spread out in various places. Very well
Mortar
Dispersed
Thoroughly
continue
As we mentioned in lesson 1, the Bible is a big book made up of many books—like Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Each of those books has lots of little stories that are all telling the Biggest Story. We also learn the Biggest Story from the songs, laws, letters, and lists we find in the Bible. The lists are called genealogies (family trees). Have you ever seen your family tree? It usually will have a long list of names. Like your mom, your cousin, and your grandpa.
continue
Well, Genesis 10 records a list of seventy names. This list is sometimes called the Table of Nations. The word table is just another name for list. This table starts with the sons of Noah—Shem, Ham, and Japheth. How would you like to be called Ham? “Hey, Ham, can you make me a ham sandwich?” Ham (the person, not the sandwich) had lots of children. So did his brothers. From them came all the nations—tribes that spread across the earth after the flood.
continue
All of these different nations, who all spoke the same language, came up with a brilliant idea. (Or they thought it was.) “Let’s stay in one place and build a great city and a tall tower!” There is nothing wrong with building something great and tall. Noah built something really big. The problem is that God told them to fill the earth—not stay in one place. Plus, they wanted to show off. “Look how amazing we are!” Well, God hates pride and disobedience. Do you know what pride is? It's when you think you're more important than everyone else and God. These people showed us an example of that. They thought and acted like they were number one and God and everyone else was number two. But God destroyed their prideful plan by confusing their language. The place where it happened was called Babel, which means “confusion.” And God scattered them from that place so they filled the earth.
continue
Scripture Reading
GENESIS 11:1-9
Click on each word in bold to hear how it's pronounced.
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and for . Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called , because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Shinar
bitumen
mortar
Babel
continue
Memory Verse
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Genesis 11:9
continue
continue
nOW, LET'S TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE ON WHAT YOU'VE LEARNED...
go to quiz
01.
02.
03.
04.
05.
06.
07.
08.
09.
10.
Lesson Complete
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