The Lord was very mysterious around Babel
Gen 10:5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Gen 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
Gen 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
So we see that immediately after the Flood, there were many languages. God gives Noah the Earth as his. Noah passes it on to his sons. But God is a God of Bonus Gifts! Yes! He gives all of Noah’s son’s one language.
Gen 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
But, what is this? Oh Dear! What did we do? We started causing trouble for God
Gen 11:6 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.
So God goes about His Plan
Gen 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Gen 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Gen 11:9 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.
We see in Genesis 10 that there were many languages
but by the time that Genesis 11 opens, there is only one.
This is a Godly Gift that we turned down (all except those who now speak American.) First we had many languages, then there was a brief period of having one uniting language and then it went back to having many languages
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It is God’s will that foreigners will never speak American properly.
*Do you see the parallel in way that God created Paradise in Eden but, because of sin, he closed the place down?