Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer

Suspicious Activity in Shinar, Part 1 (Genesis 11:1–2) *with BONUS Content

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Season 7 Episode 23

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God had told Noah and his sons and their wives to “throng in the earth and multiply in it” (Gen. 9:7). But we don’t get the impression that humanity wanted to do that, even a century after the Flood. (In the bonus content, we consider possible dates for the settlement in Shinar.)

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” aria from “Jesu, der du meine Seele,” BWV 78 (Leipzig, 1724).