Pentecost Season · Pentecost Sunday: Vigil · Year C
Genesis 11:1-9 or Exodus 19:3-8a, 16-20b
The Tower of Babel
June 4, 2028
Overview & Insights
"Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there." (Genesis 11:7)
Humanity settles on a plain and builds a city with a tower to make a name for itself. God confuses their single language and scatters them over the earth, a scattering the Pentecost gift of tongues begins to heal.
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Genesis 11 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik
Verse-by-verse walk through the Babel narrative and its judgment on human self-exaltation.
Genesis 11 Commentary Precept Austin
Compiles multiple evangelical voices on the scattering of the nations at Babel.
Genesis 11:1 Commentaries BibleHub
Aggregates classic commentaries (Barnes, Gill, JFB, Pulpit) side by side on the Babel account.
Genesis 11 (Barnes' Notes) StudyLight
Barnes traces the historical setting of Shinar and the tower's building project.
Exodus 19 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik
Covers the alternate reading, Israel's arrival at Sinai and the terms of the covenant.
Genesis 11:1-9 Interlinear BibleHub
Shows the Hebrew text word by word for the confusion of language at Babel.
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