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❓ In Genesis 10:5 it says how people had their own language, but then in 11:7 it shows how their languages were confused so they could't understand each other.
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Answer source: https://www.gotquestions.org/Tower-of-Babel.html
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❓ In Genesis 10:5 it says how people had their own language, but then in 11:7 it shows how their languages were confused so they could't understand each other.
[5] From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations. (ESV)
Genesis 11:7It seems like they already had different languages and then at Babel they all had the same again and then god confused them. How is that possible?
[7] Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” (ESV)
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Genesis 10:5, 20 and 31 describe Noah’s descendants spreading out over the earth “by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.” How is this possible since God did not confuse the languages until the Tower of Babel in Genesis chapter 11? Genesis 10 lists the descendants of Noah’s three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. It lists their descendants for several generations. With the long life spans of that time (see Genesis 11:10-25), the genealogies in Genesis 10 likely cover several hundreds of years. The Tower of Babel account, told in Genesis 11:1-9, is a “flashback” to the point in Genesis 10 when the languages were confused. Genesis 10 tells us of different languages. Genesis 11 tells us how the different languages originated.
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