The Discovery Of Genesis
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Chapter 10 : <strong>The</strong> Tower of<br />
United Defiance<br />
After the flood, the earth began to be repopulated<br />
with the descendants of Noah and his three sons, Shem,<br />
Ham, and Japheth. At this time, according to the <strong>Genesis</strong><br />
record, “<strong>The</strong> whole earth had one language and few<br />
words” (<strong>Genesis</strong> 1 I :I). Some left the region of Mount<br />
Ararat where the ark had grounded as the flood waters<br />
subsided and traveled to a fertile valley of Shinar, between<br />
the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which would<br />
later become Mesopotamia. <strong>The</strong>re, several cities were<br />
founded, Erech, Accad, Babel, and Calah, by Nimrod,<br />
the grandson of Ham (<strong>Genesis</strong> 1O:lO).<br />
If Ham’s grandson, Nimrod, was able to found<br />
four cities from the world’s total inhabitants after such<br />
a short time, there must have been a great burst of population<br />
immediately after the flood. <strong>The</strong> generation time<br />
had been shortened from about 100 years in the antediluvian<br />
patriarchs to only 30 years immediately after the<br />
flood. At the time the Chinese race came into being<br />
after the flood, the 30-year generation time was already<br />
a fact and is thus recorded as an age, a generation of’30<br />
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