Many years passed. Noah's sons had lots of children. And their children grew up and had more children. Soon there were many people on the earth.
One of these persons was a great grandson of Noah named Nim'rod. He was a bad man who hunted and killed both animals and men.
Nim'rod also made himself a king to rule over other people.
God did not like Nim'rod.
All the people at that time spoke one language. Nim'rod wanted to keep them all together so that he could rule them. So do you know what he did? He told the people to build a city and a big tower in it. This is the picture.
God was not pleased with this building. God wanted the people to move out and live all over the earth. But the people said:_ Come on! Let's build a city and a tower so high that it's top will reach into the heaven's. Then we will be famous!' The people wanted honor for themselves, not for God.
So God made the people stop building the tower.Do you know how he did it? By suddenly causing people to speak different languages, instead of just one. No longer did the builders understand one another.
This is why their city came to be called Ba' bel, or Babylon, meaning " Confusion."
The people now began to move away from Babylon.Groups of persons who spoke the same language went to live together in other parts of the earth.
Genesis 10:1,8-10
