Is this a Bad Thing?

On the face of it, it does not seem like a bad thing. But this statement was about choosing themselves over God.

1. “Let us make us a name.” This is about not taking God’s name upon them. This was the problem before the flood. The followers of God took the name of God, while the others kept their own names.
2. “Tower, whose top may reach unto heaven.” This is about not doing things God’s way. They will put themselves at the top of heaven. They will do things their own way not God’s way.
3.  “Lest we be scattered abroad.” This was a direct statement and action against God. For Yahweh had commanded them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.” They want to stay together in one place. They did not want to fill the earth.

Yahweh sees what they are doing.

And Yahweh came down and saw the city and the tower. And all that the children of men are planning to do. And Yahweh said, “Behold, the people are one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”

Yahweh knows that mankind can and will continue to rebel against God if there is not an intervention.

Yahweh says, “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

So the Yahweh scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

Yahweh Confounds the Languages

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because Yahweh did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Yahweh scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Shem to Abram

These are the generations of Shem after the flood:

And Shem begat Arphaxad 

And Arphaxad begat Salah. 

And Salah begat Eber:

And Eber begat Peleg:

And Peleg begat Reu:

And Reu begat Serug:

And Serug begat Nahor:

And Naho begat Terah:

And Terah Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Abram and Sarai

Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. 

And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And Abram takes a wife. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; 

But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

They Move Haran

And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. 

Terah Abram’s father dies in Haran. Terah’s death makes Abram the head of the family.