Genesis Chapter 11

¹ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

² 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwait_Governorate

³ And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

⁴ 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.

This was a rebellion against what the Lord God had commanded them to do in Genesis 1:28 ²⁸ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
The people had decided instead to build a city and make a name for themselves… excluding God and his plan for mankind. The common language was a tool to unite them so that they could plan and build this city in defiance to the command that God had given them.

⁵ And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, 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.

The people were united in their rebellion against God, and this unity would have made them successful in defying God and building the world they imagined that excluded God. My thoughts are that any successful civilization has to have a moral code so that it doesn’t self-destruct. So these people must have been moral, and they had to have had rules of conduct to protect the people in the community, but the righteousness was not of God, but of man. I imagine it looked a lot like the inclusivity of today that vows to accept people flaws and all, but stops being inclusive when anyone brings up God or accountability. The idea of God and accountability causes people to feel shame over their behavior and sins….so God is excluded, so people can feel comfortable in their sinfulness and debauchery. The way people were able to bring about this plan to build a city and a tower to heaven was because they could communicate these ideas among one another, so when God stepped in to correct the trajectory of mankind, he did it by stopping their ability to communicate. I’m guessing they were confused at first and may have even attempted to continue, but soon their inability to communicate frustrated all their efforts, and they dispersed as God had intended. From the time that God scrambled the language of mankind until the global use of the internet, mankind was unable to fully communicate with one another on a large scale. As of late, the world has become united in their social causes (inclusivity without God).

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.

Even to this day, we say that a person who is speaking incoherently is babbling.

This is the genealogy of Abraham and Jesus.

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.

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.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Harran

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