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THE TOWER OF BABEL

What Happened After The Flood?

After the Flood, Noah’s sons and their wives had many children. Their families grew, and they began to spread to different parts of the earth, just as Jehovah had told them to do.

What Did Others Do?

But some of the families did not obey Jehovah. They said: ‘Let’s build a city and stay here. We’ll make a tower so tall that its top will reach all the way to heaven. Then we will be famous.’

How Did Jehovah Feel About This?

Jehovah was not happy with what those people were doing, so he decided to stop them. Do you know how he did it? He suddenly made them speak different languages. Since they could no longer understand one another, they stopped the building work. The city that they had been building became known as Babel, which means “Confusion.” People began to move away and live all over the earth. But they kept doing bad things in the new places where they lived. Were there any who still loved Jehovah? 

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What did the people of babel do?

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How did Jehovah stop them?

Was there anyone who did love Jehovah?

Abraham and Sarah

Abraham and Jehovah

Not too far from Babel was a city called Ur, where people worshipped many gods other than Jehovah. But there was a man in Ur who worshipped only Jehovah. His name was Abraham.

Jehovah said to Abraham: ‘Leave your home and your relatives, and go to the land that I will show you.’ Then God promised: ‘You will become a large nation, and I will do good things for many people all over the earth because of you.’

Abraham did not know where Jehovah was sending him, but he trusted in Jehovah. So Abraham, his wife Sarah, his father Terah, and his nephew Lot packed their things and obediently began their long trip.

 

Abraham was 75 years old when he and his family finally arrived in the land that Jehovah wanted them to see. It was called the land of Canaan. There God spoke to Abraham and made this promise: ‘All this land you see around you, I will give to your children.’ But Abraham and Sarah were old and did not have any children. So how would Jehovah make his promise come true?

How did Abraham react

• He obeyed

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What did Jehovah ask Abraham to do?

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What did Jehovah promise Abraham?

Poll

Would you obey like Abraham?

• Yes

• No