Portal:Bible/Featured chapter/June 30, 2006


Mankind settles in Shinar. Here, they attempt to build a city and a tower whose top might reach unto Heaven. To prevent this project from succeeding, God confuses their languages so that each spoke a different language. Abram, a Shemite living in Ur, takes Sarai as his wife, and they have no children.

PEOPLE: people of Earth - יהוה‎ YHWH - Shem - Arpachshad - Salah - Eber - Peleg - Reu - Serug - Nahor, son of Serug - Terah - Abram - Nahor, son of Terah - Haran - Lot - Sarai - Milcah - Iscah

PLACES: Shinar - Ur -Chaldea - Canaan - Haran

RELATED ARTICLES: Noach (parsha)

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