10-03-2010, 04:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-03-2010, 04:43 PM by Director Michael.)
Genesis 11:4 states: "They said, ... 'Let us make ourselves a name [by building a tower], so that we do not become scattered upon the face of the entire earth.'"
Measure for measure, G-d punished them for their rebellious act, by inflicting upon them the very thing that they feared would happen, on account of which they sinned. Genesis 11:8 states: "G-d scattered them from there upon the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city."
Note: In the Hebrew calendar, this happened in the year 1996 from creation, which was 3775 years ago. From that dispersion, human beings spread out for the first time over all the inhabitable continents in the world.
Measure for measure, G-d punished them for their rebellious act, by inflicting upon them the very thing that they feared would happen, on account of which they sinned. Genesis 11:8 states: "G-d scattered them from there upon the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city."
Note: In the Hebrew calendar, this happened in the year 1996 from creation, which was 3775 years ago. From that dispersion, human beings spread out for the first time over all the inhabitable continents in the world.