“Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.”
Genesis 11:1
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What was the one language, and why did God confuse it?
The Hebrew says the whole world had one saphah, one lip, and one set of words. That shared speech multiplied their power: God said nothing they devised would be beyond them (Genesis 11:6). So God confused their language and the building stopped. It looked like judgment, and it was a hard mercy, because a people this united and this deaf to God would have done real harm.
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