Genesis 11
God intentionally hinders mankind's progression. Abram and Lot are born.
11:1-4 Mankind is all one people; everybody on earth speaks one language and lives together. Man creates bricks and mortar, then builds a city and a tower. They decide to name themselves.
11:5-9 God comes down to see the tower, decides man's potential for creating is too high, and complicates their language so they can't understand one another. God scatters mankind across the face of the earth to separate them. Men call the tower Babel, because it's where God confounded language. Basically man progresses to a point where God finds it threatening, so he inhibits man's growth by making communication harder and separating him geographically. Why? This reminds me a lot of his concern that man will become god-like from Genesis 3:22. God seems very threatened by man.
11:10-29 Lists the generations of Shem (Noah's son). Abram descended from Shem; Lot was Abram's nephew (Genesis 11:27).
11:30 Abram's wife was named Sarai, who was barren (couldn't have children).
11:31-32 Terah (Abram's father) took Abram and Sarai, and Lot (Terah's grandson) from Ur to the land of Canaan (where Lot's father, Abram's brother Haran lived). Terah died in Haran (where Haran lived) at the age of 205.
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