The lesson is taken from Genesis 11:1-9
This
story tells us why there are different languages in the world today.
For before this happened everyone spoke the same language. But God in
his wisdom decided that the people of earth needed to talk in
different languages. Let's read and find out how it all came
about.
Long ago the people traveled from the east and they
found a plain. A plain is flat level ground. This plain was in the
land of Shinar (Shi-nar), and the people settled there. Soon they
begin to talk about building a city and building a tall tower. They
knew how to make brunt bricks and they had tar for mortar to go
between the bricks. They thought that by doing this they could make a
name for their selves and they wouldn't be spread in all different
directions upon the earth, they could stay together.
So
they started to build a city and a tower. The tower top was to reach
into heaven.
Now the Lord came down to see the city and
the tower that the people were building. But the Lord said, "Look,
the people are as one, for they all speak the same language, and this
is what they begin to do, now nothing they plan to do will be
impossible for them. Let us go down and give them different
languages. Then they won't be able to understand each other."
In
this way the Lord spread the people in different directions all over
the earth. That ended the building of the city. That is why the city
was called Babel. Because it was there that the Lord gave the people
different languages so they couldn't understand what each other was
saying, and the Lord sent the people in different direction all
across the earth.
Fill in the Blanks
Before the Tower of Babel was built everyone spoke the _________________ language.
The Tower of Babel was built on a plain, which was in the land of ___________________.
The tower’s top was to reach into ______________________________.
The Lord came down to see the city and the _________________ the people was building.
The Lord said, “They speak the same language, and this is what they begin to do, now ______________ they plan to do will be __________________ for them.
The Lord said, “Let us go down and give them different __________________________. Then they won’t be able to _________________________ each other.
Why was the city called Babel? ____________________________________
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