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Genesis, Part 1: Covenant Relationship Initiated

  1. Lesson One
    Creation of the World (Gen 1-2)
    23 Activities
  2. Lesson Two
    Royal Image Bearers (Gen 1-2)
    16 Activities
  3. Lesson Three
    Rebellion and Consequences (Gen 3-5)
    14 Activities
  4. Lesson Four
    Flood and New Creation (Gen 6-9)
    14 Activities
  5. Lesson Five
    Babel and the Scattering of Nations (Gen 10-11)
    13 Activities
  6. Course Wrap-Up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

We’ve noted some of the patterns and cycles that characterize the Bible’s narrative. While the story of Babel is new, it revisits old themes and presents dynamics that we’ve seen in earlier chapters of Genesis. The attempt to achieve a heavenly status, and the response of God from heaven, both sound familiar to those of us who have witnessed the fall from paradise in chapter three. The irony of that fall, where humanity receives the opposite outcome of what they had hoped, is also duplicated here at Babel.

Read carefully through Genesis 11 and address the following questions.

  1. Read verses 4, 8 and 9 again. What phrase appears three times over the course of this passage? What is the sad irony of this development?
  1. Go back and read Genesis 3:4-6. What theme from this passage is repeated in Genesis 11:4?
  1. Compare Genesis 3:22-24 with 11:6-8. What is happening in these passages? How are they similar? How are they different?