The tower of Babel

Noah and his sons settled and cultivated the land. Noah planted a vineyard. They had many children who also had them in their turn. They began to spread and people the world, just as God commanded Noah. A group of these nomads decided to settle down and make themselves famous. “Let us stop there in the plain,” they said, “and build a great city. Our fame will spread far and wide, as we will build the tallest tower we have ever seen. We will reach the sky itself! "

They immediately set to work, making bricks with mud and straw, which they hardened by heating them in the sun. They used tar as a mortar to seal the bricks.

But it did not please God. He was displeased and saddened to see that once again men were looking for what pleased them and striving to become big and big. They were too full of pride and selfishness to follow the wise plans he had devised for them.

God knew they would never stop these machinations that led them down their own stupid ways. Soon they would be as bad as the men who lived before the Flood. So he decided to disperse them in all directions, before they became even more boastful and ambitious.

They could no longer understand each other, because suddenly they had different languages. This was part of God's plan to interrupt their collusion which would have caused as much evil and disaster in the world as it did in Noah's day.
The proud Tower of Babel was never finished; soon there was nothing left but a heap of overturned bricks.