Genesis 11

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Bricks as stones to build a city and a tower.
What is Babylon? What is the "city[1] and tower[2]" of Babel we see in Genesis 11? Was "city[1] and tower[2]" like Babylon a civil system? Were they a metaphor for the city of blood spoken of by Jeremiah[3], Ezekiel[4], Hosea[5], Nahum[6], Habakkuk[7], and even Revelation.[8]? Which way is can we go to be Exiting Babylon? The word Babylon is from the word Hebrew word Babel meaning confusion by mingling. Babylonian system was a One purse system based on the covetous practices of socialism with Nimrod's officers of his welfare state as the Benefactors of society. The way society "mingles" or relates to one another may degenerate them into perfect savages through becoming accustomed to the covetous practices of the world.
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V1 One is normally AlefHeyDalet but here we see AlefHeyTav.[9] the word "language" normally ShinPieHey

[10] but seldom translated "language". We see it in Exodus 28:32 "of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven"

And the term "one" in rhe phrase one speech" normally has a base of DaletBeitReish but here we see the word one apears as AlefHeyDaletYodMem with Speech seen as VavDaletBeitReishYodMem[11].
In Genesis 10:31 we see "after their tongues"[12] also translated language is from LamedShinVavNun or lashown. to say the all had "one language" seems contradictory.
Why does the author use this different word śā-p̄āh instead of the more common LamedShinVavNun or lashown?[12]
V3 To "make[13] bricks[14]" for stone[15], and bind them with slime[16] like for morter[17] you can build a city and a tower for men like "Nimrod the mighty provider instead of the LORD".
V4 and V5 the "city[1] and tower[2]" were like the city of blood spoken of by Jeremiah[18], Ezekiel[19], Hosea[20], Nahum[21], Habakkuk[22], and even Revelation.[23]
By V6 we see because they built this "city[1] and tower[2]" are said to be "one People".
V7 The Hebrew word confound is from balal which means mingledor mixed[24] so the question is what was confounded or mingled so that the people were not able to understand or hear[24]?
The malleability of mankind as individual lumps of Clay[25] allows him to come together as a nation through acts of love and charity according to The Way of God which results from the choices that only come in systems of faith. When men are made into bricks and stuck together with "slime as mortar" by force they are not allowed to learn to understand one another and the words they use become confusion.[26]
See also Jury concerning judging Fact and Law, Cities of refuge concerning appeals courts. See how we can be bound by Consent through covetous practices. See how having one purse can divide the people from one another while mingling their wealth and right of choice which entangles[27] them again in the Yoke of bondage. Shem as Melchisedec
Abraham comes out of these cities of Ur and Haran and the way of men as bricks. He walks in faith and only builds altars of Clay and Stone, and not city of blood. By Genesis 12:3 we see "And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth [25] be blessed."
"Babel, Babylon and Babylon the Great, such is the lineage of the apostasy which has ever opposed the Church of God; like a shadow, stealing along the wall at our side. To Babel we must oppose Abraham; to Babylon, Jerusalem; to Babylon the Great, the Bride, the Lamb’s wife. “Come out of her, my people,” is the cry that rings down the ages. God comes down to see! ... When disunion prevails, destruction follows. But Pentecost and Heaven will undo the wreck of Babel. See Revelation 7:9." F.B. Meyer
Chapter 9. of the book The Covenants of the gods

System vs System
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The Tower of Babel

1 And the whole earth was of one language[10], and of one speech[11].

2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar[28]; and they dwelt there.

3 And they said one to another, Go to[29], let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick[14] for stone[30], and slime[31] had they for morter[32].

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city[1] and a tower[2], whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to see the city[1] and a tower[2], which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Shem's Descendants

10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Terah's Descendants

27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 05892 ^ריע^ ‘iyr \@eer\@ AyinYodReish or (in the plural) ^רע^ ‘ar \@awr\@ or ^ריע^ ‘ayar (#Jud 10:4) \@aw-yar’\@ a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post); from 05782 spelled AyinVavReish עוּר‎ ‘uwr [oor] a primitive root; n m; {See TWOT on 1587 @@ "1587a"} {See TWOT on 1615} AV-city 1074, town 7, every one 2, variant 6; 1089
    1) excitement, anguish
    1a) of terror
    2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
    2a) city, town
    • 05893 עִיר‎ ‘Iyr [eer] Ir= "belonging to a city"
    • 05894 עִיר‎ ‘iyr (Aramaic) [eer] -watcher
    • 05783 עוּר‎ to be exposed "Naked"... awake;
    • 05895 עַיִר‎ ‘ayir [ah’-yeer] he-ass, male ass
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 04026 מִגְדָּל‎ MemGimeDaletLamed migdal [mig-dawl’] also (in pl.) fem. מגדלה‎ migdalah [mig-daw-law’] from 01431, Greek 3093 Μαγδαλα; n m; [BDB-153b] [{See TWOT on 315 @@ "315f" }] [{See TWOT on 315 @@ "315g" }] AV-tower 47, castles 1, flowers 1, pulpit 1; 50
    1) tower
    1a) tower
    1b) elevated stage, pulpit
    1c) raised bed
  3. ↑ Jeremiah 26:15
  4. ↑ Ezekiel 7:23, Ezekiel 9:9, Ezekiel 22:2-3 ,Ezekiel 24:6-9
  5. ↑ Hosea 6:8
  6. ↑ Nahum 3:1
  7. ↑ Habakkuk 2:8, 12,17
  8. ↑ Revelation 14:20
  9. ↑ 0259 אֶחָד‎ ‘echad [ekh-awd’] a numeral from 0258 Go one way or the other; adj num; [BDB-25b] [{See TWOT on 61 }] AV-one 687, first 36, another 35, other 30, any 18, once 13, eleven + 06240 13, every 10, certain 9, an 7, some 7, misc. 87; 952
    1) one (number)
    1a) one (number)
    1b) each, every
    1c) a certain
    1d) an (indefinite article)
    1e) only, once, once for all
    1f) one … another, the one … the other, one after another, one by one
    1g) first
    1h) eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 08193 שָׂפָה‎ ShinPeiHey saphah [saw-faw’] or (in dual and plural) שׂפת‎ sepheth [sef-eth’]probably from 05595 Caphah meaning consume or snatch or 08192 Shaphah sweep away through the idea of termination (compare 05490 caph meaning end or conclusion ); n f; [BDB -973b] [{See TWOT on 2278 @@ "2278a" }] AV-lip 112, bank 10, brim 8, edge 8, language 7, speech 6, shore 6, brink 5, border 3, side 3, prating 2, vain 2, misc 4; 176
    1) lip, language, speech, shore, bank, brink, brim, side, edge, border, binding
    1a) lip (as body part)
    1b) language
    1c) edge, shore, bank (of cup, sea, river, etc)
    • ש Shin Eternal Flame of Spiritual Revelation, bound to the coal of righteousness, the Divine Essence. [sun... teeth... consume destroy] (Numeric value: 300)
    • פ ף Pei Communication: The Oral Torah The mouth, blow, edge. [Mouth speak open word] (Numeric value: 80)
    • ה Hey Expression, Thought, Speech, Action. Manifest seeds of thought and life. [Emphasize, jubilation, window, fence] (Numeric value: 5)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 01697 ^רבד^ DaletBeitReish dabar \@daw-baw’\@ DaletBeitReish from 01696 meaning speak as in declare a pattern; The same letters may represent a pasture (01699) n m; AV-word 807, thing 231, matter 63, acts 51, chronicles 38, saying 25, commandment 20, misc 204; 1439
    1) speech, word, speaking, thing
    1a) speech
    1b) saying, utterance
    1c) word, words
    1d) business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner (by extension)
    • ד Dalet Selflessness – Charity, back and forth or through a door or pathway, to enter like a fish (Numeric value: 4)
    • ב Beit Purpose: God's Dwelling Place Below - a house or God's house here. [household, in, into] (Numeric value: 2)
    • ר Reish Process of Clarification The "head" or "beginning". Life's revelation. [Head... Person head highest] (Numeric value: 200)
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 03956 לָשׁוֹן‎ LamedShinVavNun lashown [law-shone’] or לשׁן‎ lashon [law-shone’] also (in plural) feminine לשׁנה‎ lëshonah [lesh-o-naw’] from 03960 LamedShinNun slander; n m/n f; [BDB-546a] [{See TWOT on 1131 @@ "1131a" }] AV-tongue 98, language 10, bay 3, wedge 2, babbler 1, flame 1, speaker + 0376 1, talkers 1; 117
    1) tongue
    1a) tongue (of men)
    1a1) tongue (literal)
    1a2) tongue (organ of speech)
    1b) language
    1c) tongue (of animals)
    1d) tongue (of fire)
    1e) wedge, bay of sea (tongue-shaped)
  13. ↑ 03835 לָבַן‎ laban [law-ban’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-526a, BDB-527b] [{See TWOT on 1074 @@ "1074b" }] [{See TWOT on 1074 @@ "1074h" }] AV-make white 3, make 2, make brick 1, be white 1, be whiter 1; 8
    1) to be white
    1a) (Hiphil)
    1a1) to make white, become white, purify
    1a2) to show whiteness, grow white
    1b) (Hithpael) to become white, be purified (ethical)
    2) (Qal) to make bricks
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 03843 לְבֵנָה‎ lëbenah [leb-ay-naw’] from 03835; n f; [BDB-527a] [{See TWOT on 1074 @@ "1074g" }] AV-brick 10, tile 1; 11
    1) tile, brick
    1a) brick
    1b) tile
    1c) pavement
  15. ↑ 068 ^ןבא^ ‘eben \@eh’- ben\@ from the root of 01129 through the meaning to build; n f; AV-stone(s) 247, weight(s) 7, divers weights + 068 3, hailstones 3, stony 2, carbuncle + 0688 1, hailstones + 01259 1, hailstones + 0417 1, headstone 1, masons + 07023 1, plummet 1, slingstones 1; 272
    1) stone (large or small)
    1a) common stone (in natural state)
    1b) stone, as material
    1b1) of tablets
    1b2) marble, hewn stones
    1c) precious stones, stones of fire
    1d) stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon
    1e) weight
    1f) plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal
    1g) stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice
    1h) sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where
    God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines
    1i) (simile)
    1i1) sinking in water, motionlessness
    1i2) strength, firmness, solidity
    1i3) commonness
    1j) (metaph)
    1j1) petrified with terror
    1j2) perverse, hard heart
  16. ↑ Asphalt, 02564 חֵמָר‎ chemar [khay-mawr’] from 02560; n m; [BDB-330b] [{See TWOT on 683 @@ "683b" }] AV-slime 2, slimepit + 0875 1; 3
    1) slime, pitch, asphalt, bitumen
    • Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime <02564 וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ר VavHeyChetMemReish> had they for morter.
    • Genesis 14:10 And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits <02564 חֵמָ֔ר ChetMemReish>; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
    • Exodus 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime <02564 בַחֵמָ֖ר BeitChetMemReish > and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river’s brink.
  17. ↑ 02563 חֹמֶר‎ chomer [kho’mer] ChetMemReish from 02560; n m; [BDB-330b] [{See TWOT on 683 @@ "683c" }] AV-clay 11, homer 11, morter 4, mire 2, heap 2; 30
    1) cement, mortar, clay
    1a) mortar, cement
    1b) clay
    1c) mire
    2) heap
    2a) swelling, surging (of water)
    3) homer-a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 l)
  18. ↑ Jeremiah 26:15
  19. ↑ Ezekiel 7:23, Ezekiel 9:9, Ezekiel 22:2-3 ,Ezekiel 24:6-9
  20. ↑ Hosea 6:8
  21. ↑ Nahum 3:1
  22. ↑ Habakkuk 2:8, 12,17
  23. ↑ Revelation 14:20
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 01101 ^ללב^ balal \@baw-lal’\@ a primitive root; v; AV-mingled 37, confound 2, anointed 1, mixed 1, give provender 1, tempered 1, non translated variant 1; 44
    1) to mix, mingle, confuse, confound
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to mingle, confuse
    1a2) to mix
    1a3) to give provender, feed (animals)
    1b) (Hithpoel) to mix oneself (among others)
    1c) (Hiphil) to fade away
    The Hebrew word Babylon comes from the Hebrew letters BeitLamedLamed.
    The root word Balam consisting of the letters BeitLamedMem means held, literally the house (Beit) held (Lamed) by the flow (Mem) of benefits.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 0127 אֲדָמָה‎ ‘adamah [ad-aw-maw’] from 0119 adam; n f; [BDB-9b] [{See TWOT on 25 @@ "25b" }] AV-land(s) 125, earth 53, ground 43, country 1, husbandman 2, husbandry 1; 225
    1) ground, land
    1a) ground (as general, tilled, yielding sustenance)
    1b) piece of ground, a specific plot of land
    1c) earth substance (for building or constructing)
    1d) ground as earth’s visible surface
    1e) land, territory, country
    1f) whole inhabited earth
    1g) city in Naphtali
  26. ↑ 08085 ^עמשׁ^ shama‘ \@shaw-mah’\@ a primitive root ShinMemAyin understand 9, obedient 8, diligently 8, shew 6, sound 3, declare 3, discern 2, noise 2, perceive 2, tell 2, reported 2, misc 33; 1159 v
    1) to hear, listen to, obey
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to hear (perceive by ear)
    1a2) to hear of or concerning
    1a3) to hear (have power to hear)
    1a4) to hear with attention or interest, listen to
    1a5) to understand (language)
    1a6) to hear (of judicial cases)
    1a7) to listen, give heed
    1a7a) to consent, agree
    1a7b) to grant request
    1a8) to listen to, yield to
    1a9) to obey, be obedient
    1b) (Niphal)
    1b1) to be heard (of voice or sound)
    1b2) to be heard of
    1b3) to be regarded, be obeyed
    1c) (Piel) to cause to hear, call to hear, summon
    1d) (Hiphil)
    1d1) to cause to hear, tell, proclaim, utter a sound
    1d2) to sound aloud (musical term)
    1d3) to make proclamation, summon
    1d4) to cause to be heard
    n m 2) sound
  27. ↑ Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
  28. ↑ 08152 שִׁנְעָר‎ Shin‘ar [shin-awr’] probably of foreign derivation; n pr loc; [BDB-1042a] [{See TWOT on 2424 }] AV-Shinar 7, Babylonish 1; 8 Shinar= "country of two rivers"
    1) the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylonia or Chaldea
  29. ↑ הָ֚בָה03051 יָהַב‎ yahab [yaw-hab’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-396b] [{See TWOT on 849 }] AV-give 23, go to 4, Bring 2, ascribe 1, come on 1, give out 1, Set 1, take 1; 34
    1) to give, provide, ascribe, come
    1a) (Qal)
    1a1) to give
    1a2) to set, place
    1a3) to provide (with reflexive)
    1a4) to ascribe (glory)
    1a5) to grant, permit, come now
  30. ↑ 068 ^ןבא^ ‘eben \@eh’- ben\@ from the root of 01129 through the meaning to build; n f; AV-stone(s) 247, weight(s) 7, divers weights + 068 3, hailstones 3, stony 2, carbuncle + 0688 1, hailstones + 01259 1, hailstones + 0417 1, headstone 1, masons + 07023 1, plummet 1, slingstones 1; 272
    1) stone (large or small)
    1a) common stone (in natural state)
    1b) stone, as material
    1b1) of tablets
    1b2) marble, hewn stones
    1c) precious stones, stones of fire
    1d) stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon
    1e) weight
    1f) plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal
    1g) stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice
    1h) sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where
    God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines
    1i) (simile)
    1i1) sinking in water, motionlessness
    1i2) strength, firmness, solidity
    1i3) commonness
    1j) (metaph)
    1j1) petrified with terror
    1j2) perverse, hard heart
  31. ↑ Asphalt, 02564 חֵמָר‎ chemar [khay-mawr’] from 02560; n m; [BDB-330b] [{See TWOT on 683 @@ "683b" }] AV-slime 2, slimepit + 0875 1; 3
    1) slime, pitch, asphalt, bitumen
    • Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime <02564 וְהַ֣חֵמָ֔ר VavHeyChetMemReish> had they for morter.
    • Genesis 14:10 And the vale of Siddim [was full of] slimepits <02564 חֵמָ֔ר ChetMemReish>; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
    • Exodus 2:3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime <02564 בַחֵמָ֖ר BeitChetMemReish > and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid [it] in the flags by the river’s brink.
  32. ↑ 02563 חֹמֶר‎ chomer [kho’mer] ChetMemReish from 02560; n m; [BDB-330b] [{See TWOT on 683 @@ "683c" }] AV-clay 11, homer 11, morter 4, mire 2, heap 2; 30
    1) cement, mortar, clay
    1a) mortar, cement
    1b) clay
    1c) mire
    2) heap
    2a) swelling, surging (of water)
    3) homer-a unit of dry measure about 65 imperial gallons (300 l)
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