101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

96 101 Myths of the Bible
for example, the Bible says, “By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their
lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations” (Gen. 10:5).
Between the genealogy of Noah and the claim that“they journeyed form the east,”
we have no other antecedent defining who “they” refers to. Since Genesis 10 reports
that the world had already been divided into nations and spoke many languages before
we get to the story of the Tower of Babel, it contradicts Genesis 11:1, which claims
that the entire world spoke one language. The Noah genealogy, which divides his family
into several nations, also contradicts the claim that humanity was scattered around
the world after the attempt to build the tower to heaven.