But, instead of spreading out and repopulating the earth as God had intended, men began to group together in cities.

Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. During that time he continued to witness to others. But, in spite of Noah's instructions, many failed to live in righteousness. They began, once again, to look to man for leadership, instead of trusting God to take care of them.

One of the men the people began to look to for leadership was a man named Nimrod. Nimrod wasn't a godly man, but he was a skillful hunter, and could protect the people from the wild animals and hostile bands of marauders that wandered throughout the land.

Nimrod built a city with a high wall around it. The city came to be known as Babylon. He placed himself in a position of great authority and ruled his subjects with an iron hand.

Nimrod was a shrewd man. He knew that people would be more submissive if they felt they were working toward a common goal.

Even though God had promised that never again would the earth be covered with a flood, Nimrod convinced the people that they should construct a building that would tower so high into the heavens that no waters could ever reach its top.

God looked down on mankind and saw that they had clustered together in groups instead of spreading out across the earth. He realized that if men put their minds together eventually they would come up with weapons that would cause worldwide destruction.

"Look," God said, gazing down on what man was doing, "the people have one language, and work together for a common purpose. If we don't put a stop to it, nothing that they purpose to do will be too hard for them. Let's go down and confound their language, so that they can't understand one anothers speech."

So God mixed up the language of the people. Where they had worked together in harmony, now they didn't understand what the other person was saying. Those who could understand one another began to band together in small groups. Soon those groups were fighting between and among themselves.

Many left Babylon and spread out over the earth, forming their own particular clan with their own way of speaking.

Work on the tower that Nimrod had envisioned reaching into the sky came to a standstill and it became known as Babel, meaning confusion.

The city of Babylon continued under Nimrod's direction, but the tower was never completed.

Noah was about seven hundred years old when God scattered the people of Babylon. Because he was faithful to God, God granted him a long productive life. Noah died at the age of nine hundred and fifty.

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