“So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.”
Genesis 11:8
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- The Tower of Babel: Why God Came Down to Scatter Them (Genesis 11:1-9)
What happened to the scattering they feared?
The builders feared being scattered, puwts in Hebrew, and that is exactly what happened. On its own the scattering sounds like a curse. In the flow of Genesis it was how the blessing began to move, filling the earth as God had wanted from Noah onward and spreading the seventy nations of Genesis 10, whom the promise would one day reach.
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