Bible Cross References
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham---Cush, Egypt, Libya, and Canaan---were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
Genesis 11:1-9
1
At first, the people of the whole world had only one language and used the same words.
2
As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there.
3
They said to one another, "Come on! Let's make bricks and bake them hard." So they had bricks to build with and tar to hold them together.
4
They said, "Now let's build a city with a tower that reaches the sky, so that we can make a name for ourselves and not be scattered all over the earth."
5
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which they had built,
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and he said, "Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!
7
Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."
8
So the LORD scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.
9
The city was called Babylon, because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.