The Table of Nations—the most skipped chapter in Genesis—answers a question we didn’t know we were asking: where did everyone come from? Count the names and you get seventy, the number of completeness. All the peoples of the known world traced back to one ark, one family, one God. In a world where every nation claimed its own divine origin, Genesis makes a radical claim: humanity is one family. The Egyptian and the Canaanite, the Greek and the Assyrian—all cousins. Every nation has a place in God’s story. And the seventy that scatter here will one day be gathered. What Babel divides, Pentecost will reunite.

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