The Tower of Babel
Soon after the Great Flood, there were thousands of people
living on the earth again.  After a while the people began
to forget about God's promise not to flood the earth again.
They decided to build a tower that would reach to heaven. If
another flood came they would climb their tower and be safe.
Instead of trusting in God's promise to keep them safe, they
decided to trust in their own efforts.  So they began to
build the high tower.  Now God was not pleased that man had
forgotten Him and He was not pleased with this tower.  God
decided that the work on the tower must be stopped.  All the
people on the earth spoke the same language after the flood.
God caused something very strange to happen.  Suddenly, the
people began to speak different languages! The workers could
no longer understand each other.  The work on the tower
stopped and God scattered the people throughout the land.
The tower was called Babel.  Babel means confusion.