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The Tower of Babel

Languages divide the world.
Contributed by Sweet Publishing
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As people moved east they found a plain in Babylon and settled there. Everyone spoke one language and could understand each other. – Slide 1
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They proudly declared, ‘Let’s make a name for ourselves and build a city with a tower that reaches up to the heavens.’ They made bricks and used tar for mortar. – Slide 2
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God saw how they were working together to make such proud plans and decided to put a stop to their building by confusing their language so they could not understand each other. – Slide 3
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The workers started babbling in different languages and stopped working together. – Slide 4
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The building work stopped and groups of people scattered to live in different parts of the earth. – Slide 5
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