Today's passage is mostly genealogy again which again gives me the opportunity to try pronouncing a load of cool names (Arpachshad is now front runner for my firstborn son). If nothing else this tells us the great importance of tracing a family line to the culture that produced the book of Genesis and it's still important by the time the New Testament rolls around millennia later.
The only narrative piece in this passage is the rather strange story of the Tower of Babel. At it's heart it highlight's once again man's self centred desire to determine his own destiny and build his own kingdom at the exclusion of God. Having lived overseas and struggled with the Russian language for three years I would occasionally rail against God for having started off the whole language thing in the first place. This was always tempered by my increasing understanding of how culture and language can give us a bigger picture of who God is and I'm altogether grateful for the many languages that our world has.
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