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 said: “Let  Us  confound  their  tongue  that  they  may  not  understand one  another’s  speech.”  Till  then  there  had  been  but  one language spoken  amongst  men. So the  Lord  scattered  them  from that place  into  all  the  lands,  and  they  ceased  to  build  the  city. Therefore, the  city  was  called  Babel,  which  signifies  confusion, because there  the  language  of  the  whole  earth  was  confounded.



The children  of  Sem  remained  in  Asia,  and  from  them  descended the  Israelites,  the  chosen  people  of  God. Most of  the descendants  of  Cham  settled  in  Africa,  while  those  of  Japhet  took up their  abode  in  Europe. Thus were  different  nations  founded. The more  men  multiplied  on  the  earth,  the  more  wicked  they