The City That Reached for Heaven: Genesis 11:1-9

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

Imagine it: every human being able to understand every other. No translation needed. No barriers of tongue. One family, one vocabulary, one voice.

As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

Shinar—the region of Babylon, the fertile crescent between the rivers. They stopped wandering. They put down roots. They began to plan.