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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