ASLEEP ON THE JOB AGAIN

I once heard about a man who was resting on his forklift at work and unintentionally fell asleep. As he was waking up, he realized someone was standing beside him. It was his supervisor. So before he opened his eyes, he took a deep breath, and said, Amen.

That was told to me as a true story, but I don’t know if it is or just a joke. I thought it was funny. It made me laugh. It does sound like something that could have really happened because I’ve fallen asleep on the job a few times. All during lunch except the time I’m telling you about now.

One of my first full-time jobs was making vinyl siding. We worked three 12-hour shifts, and one 6-hour shift each week. There were 4 shifts. Days and nights at the first part of the week, and days and nights at the second part of the week. I was on the 4th shift which was nights, from Wednesday night through Saturday night. I would get off work on Sunday and be off until Wednesday night.

Those were weird hours, and they seemed so long. I couldn’t get much sleep in the daytime, mainly because I was used to sleeping at night, but a few of my friends and family were not as considerate as they could have been. One of my young cousins actually set the woods on fire behind my house one day while I was trying to sleep.

Being tired and sleepy at work is bad enough for eight hours, but it’s worse for a 12-hour shift, and it didn’t help that the job was boring.

I was packing vinyl siding into boxes as it came off a conveyor belt just after going through the mold to form it into its unique shape. When it came out at the end of the machine, it traveled through another mold just to keep it straight and in the same shape while it quickly cooled down. It was fenced-in with rollers and presses to aid in this process and to keep anyone from getting hurt. By the time it reached the end of the track and dropped onto the rollers, it was pretty much cooled off and in the shape, it would be in for the next twenty-plus years.

Sometimes a piece of trash or something would get in the mix somewhere along the way and it would cause a hole to appear in the piece of siding. As it was pushed and pulled along the track it would usually become solid again when the piece of trash moved on, but sometimes it wouldn’t. When the hole remained for more than a few seconds we would have to quickly cut the piece of siding off behind the hole with a hacksaw and quickly put it back into the precisely formed track.

It was bound to happen, and one night it did. A huge hole formed in the piece of vinyl, and I knew it wasn’t about to work itself out. I grabbed the hacksaw and cut as fast as I could, but I wasn’t fast enough to get the siding back into the form in time. I had to try it again. I grabbed the quick-moving siding with my left hand and the saw with my right hand and began to cut it again. After only two strokes, I stopped. I knew what I had done. The second stroke had cut my thumb almost completely off.

I grabbed my bloody hand and ran to the restroom. As I washed my thumb in the sink, I could see the extent of the damage. The saw had hacked through my thumb, removing a portion as wide as the teeth on the blade. There was only a small section of the nail and flesh left intact. I was in a lot of pain.

I went to the emergency room and got it patched up. Then I spent the next week or so pushing a broom at work for twelve hours a night. That was worse than the accident itself. I was supposed to be on light duty for two weeks but after one, I couldn’t do it anymore. I bugged them until I convinced them to let me get back on the line.

I still wasn’t sleeping enough, so I started using caffeine pills to keep me awake at work. They made me sick so I had to stop taking them. Then one night, as I was packing the siding into boxes, I woke up about twenty feet away from my line. I was holding one piece of siding in my hands looking around. The plant manager and my supervisor were standing together by the break room looking at me and laughing their heads off. So I calmly walked back to my line and got caught up as quickly as I could.

Then, one morning as I was driving home, I fell asleep and slammed the side of my car into a bridge on the highway. It woke me up, and I jerked the steering wheel in the opposite direction and went into the opposite lane. Thank God there was no oncoming traffic there or I might not be here to tell the story.

After that, I had to quit and find a daytime job. That’s how I ended up with the position where I fell Asleep On The Job that I previously wrote about. You can read that post and one about another time I cut the end of my index finger almost all the way off at the links below.

God has been so good to me. I’ve been through a lot in my life and he’s always gotten me through whatever bad happened and I know he’ll always be there to help me. You can trust him, too. Never forget that.

ASLEEP ON THE JOB
https://teddylynn.blogspot.com/2017/07/asleep-on-job.html

THE DUNE BUGGY, THE BICYCLE, AND THE DRILL
https://teddylynn.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-dune-buggy-bicycle-and-drill.html

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NAILED TO THE CROSS

 

If you're a Christian, and/or attend church regularly, or if you've been around Christians much, then I'm sure you've heard somebody say that the law was nailed to the cross. They say the Ten Commandments were only for the Jews, not for Christians, and they were nailed to the cross when Jesus died. Then, they usually quote Romans 6:14-15, and say, "We’re not under the law but under grace."

So, if we no longer have to obey the 10 Commandments, is it okay to Lie, Steal, Kill, Commit adultery, and take the name of the LORD in vain? Then they say, "No. Nine of the Commandments were repeated in the New Testament, so we do have to obey those nine."

Today, I want to ask, and answer the question, What exactly did Jesus nail to his cross?

We'll start with Colossians 2:11-14, and Ephesians 2:11-18

Colossians 2:12-14
12 You were buried with him in baptism and rose with him through faith in the operation of God, who raised him from the dead.
13 Because you were dead in your sins and uncircumcised in your flesh, but he made you alive together with him, and forgave you for all your sins,
14 Erasing the handwritten law that was against us, which was contrary to us, he took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

Ephesians 2:11-18
11 So remember, that in the past, you were Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcised by those who are Circumcised in the flesh;
12 At that time, you were without Jesus. You were not part of the community of Israel and were strangers to the covenant of promise. You were without God in the world, and had no hope:
13 But now, in Jesus, the Messiah, you who were once far away are made near through the blood of the Messiah.
14 Because he is our peace. He has made both, one, and has broken down the wall that separated us.
15 In his flesh, he destroyed that wall, which was the law of precepts and ordinances, in order to create in himself one new man from the two, and make peace;
16 So that he might reconcile both to God in one body, and destroy the wall through the cross:
17 He came and preached peace to you who were at a distance, and to those who were near.
18 So now, through him, we both have access to the Father through one Spirit.

In these 2 passages, Paul is talking to two different churches, but he's saying the same thing to both, although it's not word for word. Notice that he uses the same terms in the highlighted sections in each passage marked by corresponding colors.

Paul is telling the Colossians and the Ephesians that Jesus died for the Jews and the Gentiles to bring all his followers together as one people. There was a law of precepts and ordinances which he calls a wall that separated both groups. He also calls it the handwritten law which was against them. Both terms refer to the Law of Moses.

He says Jesus destroyed that "Wall" which was the handwritten law of precepts and ordinances which was against them by symbolically nailing it to his cross. He became sin for us on that cross. He was the supreme sacrifice that all the animal offerings pointed forward to. So, what was nailed to the cross? It was the Law of Moses; not the Ten Commandments. Let's look at a few verses from Deuteronomy to confirm this.

Deuteronomy 10:1-5
1 At that time the Lord said to me, Cut two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me into the mountain, and also make you an ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tablets, the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you will put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and cut two tablets of stone like the first, and went up into the mountain, with the two tablets in my hand.
4 And he (God) wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them to me.
5 And I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the Lord commanded me.

Notice that the 10 commandments were written on two tablets of stone, and were placed inside the ark of the covenant itself, but, as the next few verses show, the Law of Moses was written in a book, (scroll) and placed in the SIDE of the ark of the covenant.

Deuteronomy 4:14
14 And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, so you might do them in the land which you go over to possess.

Deuteronomy 31:9
9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:25-26
25 Moses commanded the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,
26 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

Notice that the Law of Moses (Precepts/Ordinances and Judgments) was against them. That's the same wording Paul uses in Colossians 2:14. The law that was against them was the Law of Moses, and clearly, that is the law that was nailed to the cross; not the Ten Commandments.

Since that's the case, what about the Ten Commandments? Well, the Bible tells us the Ten Commandments was the Old Covenant written on stone (Deut. 4:13), and the New Covenant is the Ten Commandments written in our minds (Hebrews 10:16).

The Ten Commandment Law was NOT nailed to the cross, the Law of Moses was. So, that means the Ten Commandments are still there for us to obey; all ten, not just nine, and by the way, all ten of the commandments were repeated in the New Testament; not just nine, as some people claim.

The Commandments were not just for the Jews. In fact, they were not given to the Jews. They were given to the Children of Israel, which, at the time, consisted of all twelve tribes. The Jews came much later from the tribe of Judah. The Ten Commandments existed before God wrote them on the stone tablets for the Israelites in Exodus chapter twenty. Look BACK at chapter 16 and read this verse carefully.

Exodus 16:4
4 Then the LORD said to Moses, Look, I will rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather a certain amount every day, so I may test them, to see if they will follow my law or not.

Much earlier than that, God said this about Abraham;

Genesis 26:5
5 Because Abraham heard my voice, and obeyed my ordinances, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

So God's Law was already there before there was ever a Jew or a nation called Israel. The Israelites had been in Egypt for over four hundred years and had been deeply influenced by Egyptian culture. Many of them were even serving the Egyptian gods. They needed to be reminded of the true God's Law, so he spoke the Commandments to them, and then he wrote them down for them. The fact is, that God's law has always existed because he has always existed.

Just a few more points to wrap it up:

The New Testament does say, "You are not under the law, but under grace" (Romans 6:14). But the first part of that verse says, "Sin shall not have dominion over you…"

Romans 3:20 says the law is the standard that shows us what sin is.

In Romans 7:7, Paul says he would not have known what sin was without the law.

Romans 10:4 says the goal of the law is to bring all who believe to Jesus to be justified.

1 John 3:4 says, Whoever sins, breaks the law: because sin is breaking the law.

There could be no sin without the Law, so it has been around as long as sin has. Please look at these next few verses carefully.

Galatians 5:18
18 If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

BUT, those who are not led by the Spirit are STILL under the Law. Let me say that again. Listen closely. Galatians 5:18 says, "If you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law." Those who are NOT led by the Spirit are still under the Law. What does that mean?

We who have accepted Jesus as our Savior are not under the Law because we've accepted God's free gift of Salvation, and our sins have been forgiven. We're now under Grace. But, just because we're no longer under the Law, doesn't mean the Law is no longer there. Those who have NOT yet been saved still need the Law to show them what sin is so they can come to Jesus and be saved.

Galatians 3:24-25 says it another way.

Galatians 3:24-25
24 So the Law was our teacher to bring us to Christ, so we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a teacher. (The Law)

Everyone is not saved. Everyone does NOT have faith. Those people STILL NEED THE LAW to tell them what sin is. They still need the Law to show them they're lost, and to point them to our loving Savior. They still need that teacher. So the Ten Commandment Law has not been changed nor done away with. IT IS STILL THERE, just as strong, and as in effect as ever.

Keeping the Ten Commandments WILL NOT save us. We should obey them because we ARE saved. All ten, not just nine of them. Jesus said, "If you love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15). If we love him, we should want to obey his Commandments; Not to be saved, but because we ARE saved.

So, the next time you hear someone say the law was nailed to the cross, you'll know that it was not the Ten Commandment Law. It was the law of Moses with the precepts and ordinances, and the sacrifices that symbolized the one great sacrifice of the Son of God for us for all time.

You can read what the Bible says about the Old and New Covenant at the link below.
https://teddylynn.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-old-and-new-covenant.html

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THE DUNE BUGGY, THE BICYCLE, AND THE DRILL

If you’ve read my books or followed my blog, you can agree that there just seems to be no end to the dumb stuff I did growing up, but you may be surprised when you read the latest dumb thing I’ve done as an adult.

When I was younger, I was very impressionable. If I saw somebody do something I thought was amazing, whether it was in person or on TV, I would try it. I guess you could say I was a daredevil. I did many things I should never have done, like climbing on top of our twelve-foot-tall mobile home and jumping off. Of course, it hurt my legs and hips, but not bad enough to keep me from jumping out of the ten-foot loft in the gym at school. I loved climbing trees, too. I would climb as high as I could possibly go until the limbs were too small to go any higher.

Pretending to be Spider-Man, I once climbed up the side to the top of a tall stack of wood at the pallet factory and had a hard time figuring out how to get back down without calling for an adult for help.

I always liked running and jumping over things, so when I got a bicycle, I started building ramps and jumping them. I’ve made some jumps that I thought were amazing at the time, but I’ve also had some serious wrecks. I never broke a bone, but I’ve had some serious scrapes, bruises, and sprained body parts, and I’ve lost a lot of blood.

One time, I made a ramp in our graveled driveway using an old piece of firewood and two flat boards placed side by side. When I hit the ramp, the front wheel went between the two boards, pushing them aside and hitting the log. I flipped over the handlebars and onto the gravel as the bike flipped over on me. The back wheel was bent beyond repair, and the bike was messed up pretty bad. One of my shoes was torn off my foot, and I was in a lot of pain for a while.

Another time, I had built my own bike, piece by piece. I bought an old frame from my uncle. I cleaned it up, and painted it, then Uncle Charles took a 3-speed rear end from a bigger bike and changed the spokes to make it fit my 20-inch wheel. I bought new pedals, a new fancy handlebar holder, and handlebar grips. It was a nice bike and I was proud of it. My cousin Timmy helped me build a nice ramp inside a big metal building where our landlord ran a Coke crate repair shop. It had a concrete floor, but the parking lot was gravel. That’ll be important later in the story.

So we lined up several wooden Coke crates in a row. The ones that held twelve or sixteen bottles. I jumped those with ease, so we kept adding more crates, one at a time. We added another, then another, then another. I successfully jumped over eighteen Coke crates, so we added another. I went outside again to get a good running go as I had done the last twenty or so times. I started paddling as fast as I could down the gravel drive. I hit the ramp and sailed through the air like Evel Knievel, but the back wheel of my bike hit the edge of that nineteenth crate, and I wiped out like Evel Knievel did that time at Madison Square Garden in New York. I slid for what seemed like a mile on the concrete floor which had gravel speckled all over it from the parking lot. It tore up my pants, my leg, my hip, and my thigh. It was awful. It took a good while to recover from that one.

Another time, I was on a dune buggy trying to be funny because my friends were watching me from a distance. I drove up to the top of a steep hill and was going to make them think I was going over. I was planning to put on the brakes and stop just short of the edge. Well, when I was almost to the edge, I pressed the brake, but thanks to the rusty floor of that old Volkswagen that the brake cylinder was attached to, the brake pedal bolts pulled through the thin metal frame. I had no breaks, so off the top of the cliff, I went. When I hit the bottom, my ribs felt like they touched my pelvic bones, and that was some kind of pain.

I learned many lessons growing up. I learned not to do the same dumb things again. It’s easy to learn what not to do after we’ve hurt ourselves doing it, but that doesn’t mean we won’t do a different dumb thing later. Let me give you a good example.

It’s been over 30 years since that bicycle, and the dune buggy incidents, but two months ago, I was having a problem with my van. While I was working on it, I noticed one of the battery cable ends was still the same one that was there when I got the van several years back. I had replaced the other one a year or so ago, but there was a problem that I couldn’t overcome at the time in order to replace both of them.

There was a metal plate with a hole in it attached to the battery cables, and the new battery cable ends have a bolt that goes through the hole to attach the battery cable to the battery cable end which goes onto the battery. Well, the hole in the metal plate on the ground wire was not big enough for the new cable end to fit. I tried to make the hole bigger with a file when I replaced the other one, but it must be some kind of composite metal because it’s really hard and tough. This time, I decided to use a drill with a metal bit to make the hole bigger.

The cable was attached to the starter, so I couldn’t take it off and lay it on a table to drill it out, but it was just long enough to reach the battery, so I got a piece of wood and laid it on my battery, then put the metal plate on the wood and tried to drill it out, but that wasn’t working. I was afraid it might slip off, and drill a hole in my new battery, so I decided I could hold the cable in my hand and slowly drill the hole out. Talk about dumb; I knew that was dangerous I knew it could slip off and maybe hit my finger or something, but I did it anyway, thinking I had it under control. I just wanted to get it done.

As soon as I started to drill, the metal bit grabbed the metal plate and hung in the hole. It twisted the cable around my left hand and pulled the drill bit into the nail of my index finger. It happened so fast before I could even think to let off the trigger, but at the same time, it seemed like slow motion as I watched the end of my finger being twisted, and cut off by the drill bit. The cable wrapped around my hand and fingers so tightly that it bruised my hand and even bent that straight piece of hard metal.

When I got my hand, and finger unwrapped from the wire and the drill bit, I saw the end of my finger twisted and mangled, and hanging off. I took my grease rag and grabbed my fingertip to put it back in place, and then I started running to the house to tell my wife I needed to go to the emergency room. As I ran, I heard myself screaming really loud and long. I screamed so loud that my throat hurt for a few days afterward. Now, two months later, my finger is still healing, and I’m reminded every day not to do anything like that again. But who knows what life has in store for tomorrow.

In the famous words of Forrest Gump, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” We can make plans, and complete them, sometimes, but we never really have full control of our lives. We don’t know what the outcome will really be anytime we set out to do something.

I said all that to say this; We do dumb stuff, and we learn from it, but that doesn’t mean we won’t do a different dumb thing later. We need to use discernment and determine that we won’t do anything dangerous without the proper equipment, and the proper training, and without asking God for wisdom and protection first. So pray. Believe and trust God. One day that could be the difference between life and death for any of us here on earth, and it will be the difference between life and death in eternity.

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DID MOSES WRITE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS ON THE 2ND SET OF STONE TABLETS?

Did Moses write the Ten Commandments on the second set of stone tablets, or did God? Some Bible disputers point out what they say are two contradictory scriptures. They claim that one account says God wrote the Commandments on the second set of tablets, and another says Moses did. There are also some Christians who believe and teach this. Let’s examine these claims and see if they’re correct.

In Exodus chapter 20, the LORD spoke the Ten Commandments to the children of Israel (Exodus 20:1-17). In Exodus chapter 24, the LORD told Moses to come up to the mountain and he would give him some tablets of stone with the words of the Ten Commandments which he had spoken to the children of Israel.

Exodus 24:12
12 And the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and be there: and I will give you tablets of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that you may teach them.

So Moses went up the mountain to meet with God.

Exodus 31:18
18 And he (God) gave to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him on Mount Sinai, two tablets of testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 32:15-16
15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand: the tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
16 And the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

These verses tell us that God gave Moses two tablets of stone made by God, and written by God.

Moses was on the Mountain for more than 40 days. While he was gone, the people got tired of waiting, and they wondered if he was even coming back, so they pressured Aaron into making a golden calf for them to worship. When Moses came down from the mountain and saw the golden calf, and the people worshiping it, he threw the tablets down and broke them.

Later, God told Moses to cut two tablets out of stone like the first ones and to bring them up to him on the mountain. The LORD told Moses that He, (the LORD) would write the same words that He (the LORD) had written on the first set of tablets.

Exodus 34:1
1 And the LORD said to Moses, Cut two tablets of stone like the first: and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34:4
4 And he (Moses) cut two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

Now, read the next two verses carefully.

Exodus 34:27-28
27 And the LORD said to Moses, Write these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did not eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote on the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Ok. There’s the seeming contradiction. In verse 27, God told Moses to write these words. Then verse 28 says, He wrote on the tablets. This seems to say that Moses wrote the Ten Commandments on the second set of tablets, but is that what it says? The simple answer is No. Moses explains all the details to the Israelites later in Deuteronomy 10:1-4. Compare these verses with Exodus 34:1-4.

Deuteronomy 10:1-4
1 At that time the LORD said to me, Cut two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me on the mountain; and make an ark of wood.
2 And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you will put them in the ark.
3 And I made an ark of shittim wood and cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and went up into the mountain, with the two tablets in my hand.
4 And he (the LORD) wrote on the tablets, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spoke to you from the mountain out of the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them to me.
5 And I turned around and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are, as the LORD commanded me.

Both of these accounts are pretty much the same. They tell us that God wrote the commandments on the first set of stone tablets, and the second set as well. So, what did God tell Moses to write? Let’s look at it a little closer.

Exodus 34:27
27 And the LORD said to Moses, Write these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.

Now look back at the verses before these. Namely verses 11-26 of chapter 34.

The LORD gave Moses some instructions for the time after they would come into the promised land. These are the words he told Moses to write (Exodus 34:1-26).

Then the Bible says Moses was there with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights and HE (the LORD) wrote the words of the covenant on the second set of tablets. No contradiction.

Many seeming contradictions can be cleared up with just a little Bible study. We shouldn’t be so quick to doubt or accept the criticisms of non-believers. The Bible was written a long time ago, in a different culture, and in a different language. Much has changed since then with the culture as well as grammar, and it’s not always easy to understand at first glance. We need the guidance of the Holy Spirit to truly understand his word. The more we read, and study the Bible, the more we will understand. So pray, read, and study God’s word every day. God will be with you as you do.

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PELEG AND THE DIVIDED EARTH

Genesis chapter 10 briefly mentions a man named Peleg and says the earth was divided in his days. The Bible doesn’t tell us much about Peleg, but we can uncover more than we see at first glance by looking at the scriptures surrounding the introduction of this man. For one, we know that he lived after the great worldwide flood because he was a descendant of Shem, one of Noah’s sons. He was actually Shem’s great, great, grandson.

Genesis 10:22
22 The children of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram….
24 Arphaxad had Salah;
and Salah had Eber.
25 Eber had two sons: the name of one was Peleg; because the earth was divided in his days, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

This is the genealogy of Noah’s descendants after the flood. The genealogy record in 1 Chronicles 1:19 says the same thing about Peleg that Genesis does; “the Earth was divided in his days.” What does that mean?

Well, some Christians believe this verse may confirm the evolutionary theory about Pangaea, where a great land mass or supercontinent broke up and formed the continents we now have. The Bible does say that God made one great land mass when he separated the water from the dry land on the third day of creation week, but the waters of the global flood drastically changed the surface of the earth while it rained for forty days, and during the time it covered the earth, and as the water receded.

Peleg was born almost 200 years after the flood. As I always say, we need to look to the Bible to develop our beliefs, not to the secular world that rejects God and teaches evolution. Let’s look at verses 1 and 5 of Genesis chapter 10.

Genesis 10:1
1 These are the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:5
5 By these men, the lands of the Gentiles were divided on the earth by languages, families, and nations.

How does that verse say the earth was divided?
By men. Mere humans. Specifically, the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah (Genesis 10:1).

What kind of division was it?
The land (Earth) was divided by languages, families, and nations.

One of Noah’s great-grandsons was Nimrod. Genesis 10:10 says the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and three other cities. Genesis 11:1-9 tells us about the Tower of Babel and says everyone on earth spoke the same language at that time; there was only one. Then the sons of men started building the tower to reach high into the sky to make a name for themselves, and to be honored by the people (Genesis 11:1-9).

God saw what they were doing, so he came down and confused their languages so they couldn’t continue building the tower, and he scattered them across the Earth (Genesis 11:5-9). Look at these next verses closely.

Genesis 10:31-32
31 These were the sons of Shem, by their families, and their languages, in their lands, and their nations.
32 These were the descendants of the sons of Noah, in their generations, in their nations: and by them, the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:5
5 By these men, the lands of the Gentiles were divided on the earth by languages, families, and nations.

So clearly, the earth was divided in Peleg’s day by Families, Languages, and Nations. This is a good example of how to study the Bible. Search the scriptures, and compare scriptures to understand all the Bible says about any subject. God bless you in your study of his holy word.

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