During this time period, recorded in the early chapters of the Bible in the book of Genesis, we read an account of the tower of Babel (which would be in modern-day Iraq). In this story we see God responding to human pride and rebellion by causing human beings to speak in different languages. Along with this, we read, “So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth.”* (See image 14.5.) A fascinating thing we learn in Deuteronomy 32:8–9 is that at this incident, God divided the humans by giving them different languages and caused them spread to them out geographically.
