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With my previous post, Genesis 11:9 - The Tower of Babel - Young Earth Interpretation Supports an Old Earth (Conclusion), I believe I have finally completed my initial primary study of the creation scriptures. Surely, there is always more to go, but after 5 years of blogging, I am finally through the section of scripture that is most controversial in regards to origins. And so, as I pray and meditate on what to do next with my studies of creation, I will turn to simple devotionals…

My devotional this morning included two interesting passages that caught my attention…
 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to …

I will now bring together the first three installments of this series, to make the point that when you study the Tower of Babel of from a Young Earth perspective, you should in fact conclude that an Old Earth perspective is worth consideration.

By Studying the Hebrew

In Genesis 11:9 - The Tower of Babel - Young Earth Interpretation Supports an Old Earth (Part 1), we discussed the use of eretz in Genesis 11. It would seem that the first use of eretz in Genesis 11:9 refers to the people of Shinar, and is geographically limited in scope. Even a Young Earther believes this particular usage of eretz is geographically limited to Shinar, if only because he believes that the people of Shinar were the only people in the …

As we saw in Genesis 11:9 - The Tower of Babel - Young Earth Interpretation Supports an Old Earth (Part 2), there are Young Earthers who take quite a reasonable view of history, or at least how to use it. We reviewed an article that attempted to line up the Tower of Babel and the flood with actual historical evidence, and the author came within a few a hundred years of being correct, in my opinion. However, there was enough else that happened in the hundred years he was off by, that he missed a prime opportunity to see a much better historical fit than even he realized was there.

Here is another Young Earther article that also attempts to be …

As we discussed in Genesis 11:9 - The Tower of Babel - Young Earth Interpretation Supports an Old Earth (Part 1), Genesis 11:9 uses the word eretz two times. According to a Young Earth interpretation of the verse, the first usage of eretz is a reference to all of the people in the world, who were all in Shinar. The second usage refers to the world beyond Shinar. 
 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
An Old Earther would agree that “whole world” refers to the people of Shinar, but does this usage really mean there are no other people on the …

 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Genesis 11:9 has one of those oddities in it that I had always dismissed as just Moses’ writing style. It’s the double use of the word erets (world, earth). The two usages sound like subtly different meanings to me, but I always dismissed it because I assumed that either the earth was young, or Moses thought it was. At the very least, I didn’t think it mattered because the verses wasn’t really worth trying to reflect history, science, and such anyway. But now, in the context of this blog, I have come …

 8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
As we saw in Genesis 11:5-8 - The Tower Babel - And the LORD Came Down… Twice, Jesus brought down Angels from Heaven, and He confused the languages of Shinar. No longer would they share the Sumerian language. Their cooperation gone, they dispersed into cities and nations. History tells us that the clans of Eber retained their Semitic language, and this would develop into Hebrew. We also know that one of Babel’s sister cities, Akkad, would develop a language that would eventually assimilate the rest of the region, even working Sumerian into an odd variant on both languages. …

I just had to post this. I once read Netanyahu’s book, “A Durable Peace”, and was so relieved (as a Jew and as a Christian) when he was re-elected as Israel’s Prime Minister. In this season if history, Netanyahu is the necessary leader for Israel:

 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

 8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Jubilees 10 records it as follows…
22 - And the Lord our God said unto us: Behold, they are one people, and (this) they begin to do, and now nothing …

 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

 8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Jubilees 10 records it as follows…
22 - And the Lord our God said unto us: Behold, they are one people, and (this) they begin to do, and now nothing …

Just some random thoughts:

18 - And in the three and thirtieth jubilee, in the first year in the second week, Peleg took to himself a wife, whose name was Lomna the daughter of Sina’ar, and she bare him a son in the fourth year of this week, and he called his name Reu; for he said: ‘Behold the children of men have become evil through the wicked purpose of building for themselves a city and a tower in the land of Shinar.’

19 - For they departed from the land of Ararat eastward to Shinar; for in his days they built the city and the tower, saying, ‘Go to, let us ascend thereby into heaven.’

20 - And they began to build, …