After Noah’s death, his sons and their families kept traveling westward.
By and by they came to a beautiful plain. They were very tired of
traveling, so they rested a long time. The plain pleased them so much
that they thought they would like to live there always, and they began to
build a great city and a high tower “whose top should reach unto Heaven.”
God came down to see the city and the tower. The sight made him angry and
at once he caused the workmen to speak different languages, so they could
not understand one another and had to stop building. The tower is called
Babel because God “did there confound the language of all the earth.”
[Illustration: THE TOWER OF BABEL.]