Puritan Sailor
Puritan Board Doctor
Reading through Genesis right now and it struck me that if Genesis 10:25 (naming Peleg because "in his days the earth was divided") refers to the Tower of Babel judgment, then Noah would have been about 700 years old and Shem was about 200 years old when Babel happened. Genesis 11 seems to assume that all men were still living together at this point when they built this tower. Now Gen 11:2 does say "as people migrated east", it doesn't say as "ALL people migrated east". So perhaps this is primarily a story focusing on the people of Shinar (who likely were a majority of the population back then). So perhaps Noah and at least Shem did not live there, but remained near Mount Ararat, and did not participate in the incident. But apparently enough people were involved to invoke a universal judgment from God in the scattering of all their languages (Gen 11:6).
So is it too much to speculate that Noah and his sons participated in the tower of Babel? Did the household of Noah (or Shem) fall so quickly?
So is it too much to speculate that Noah and his sons participated in the tower of Babel? Did the household of Noah (or Shem) fall so quickly?
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