Abraham and Terah travelling from Ur to Haran, illustration for Everyday Life in Bible Times (National Geographic Society, 1968), by American illustrator Tom Lovell (1909-1997). | And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.' language saphah {saw-faw'}
Speech- dabar Opening of the mouth, or from the book, or word.
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| And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. Shinar- "country of two rivers" is the ancient name for the territory later known as Babylon or Chaldea. The three sons of Noah: Ham, Japheth and Shem. started out together, in the cradle of civilisation, in the Land of Shinar, or Babylon. Ham, father of Cush, stays in that region. Cush is the father of Nimrod, the first great world leader, and the first example of antichrist challenging the Lord who created all.  The tribes of Ham/ Cush/ Nimrod become powerful, and developed the skills of building and brickmaking. This gave them the ability to build upwards. What's the problem with build up? What's the problem with all men as brothers, speaking one unified language? God had told them to spread out and populate, but, instead of taking the journey, the ancestors of Ham/ Canaan defied God to build a city and temple to another god. .  For us today, building upwards saves precious space, but, with these sparse families, this wasn't the reason. They desired to build upwards, to climb to the lofty heights of God and disobey his command to "go forth." This tower was a ziggurut temple to idolatrous gods, already gaining popularity opposing the Creator.  This is contrary to God's plan.  This is an important factor in understanding the reason that Babylon is used and referred to in the Bible. It's a crucial key. 
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| And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.  | |||||||||
| And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, 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. | |||||||||
| And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. This phrase is powerful: "And the LORD YHWH came down to see the city and tower which the children of men builded" Powerful.  | |||||||||
| 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. Not only does God come down, but, he is faced with the dilemna in Eden, where the created mankind is already challenging GOD! | |||||||||
| Gen 11:7 | Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. | ||||||||
| So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. | |||||||||
| 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. Babel= Babylon
Hebrew BaBeL. | |||||||||
| These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood: | |||||||||
| And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. | |||||||||
| And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah: | |||||||||
| And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. | |||||||||
| And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: | |||||||||
| And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters. | |||||||||
| And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: | |||||||||
| And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. | |||||||||
| And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: | |||||||||
| And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. | |||||||||
| And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: | |||||||||
| And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters. | |||||||||
| And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor: | |||||||||
| And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. | |||||||||
| And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: | |||||||||
| And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. | |||||||||
| And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran. | |||||||||
| Now these [are] the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. | |||||||||
| And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees. | |||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||
| But Sarai was barren; she [had] no child. | |||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||
| l | And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran. | ||||||||
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