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GENESIS 11​

​Genesis 11:3

​They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

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​Who was “They”?​
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Genesis 11:4

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

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​​​Was the tower built to reach the Heavens, or some other reason; perhaps to protect them from a future flood, or an attempt to build a monument to their greatness?
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Genesis 11:5

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

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​​​Did God actually come down?
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Genesis 11:6

The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

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​​​Why did God say “nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them?”
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Genesis 11:7

Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

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​​​When God says “Come, let us”, is the “us” Himself. the Trinity, or perhaps Angels?
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​Genesis 11:31

​Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

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​​​Why had they planned to settle in Canaan only to never make it, and settle in Haran?
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​​​Ishmael, the son of Abram is the Father of Islam. God blessed him with 12 sons that would become the "Twelve Tribes of Ishmael". Why did God apparently allow 2 similar, but separate Ideologies?
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