Making God's Name Great | Torah | Genesis 11:10-32

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Pride often causes us to make our own name great, while making someone else's name smaller. What happens when you try to shrink God's name? In today's episode, Patrick uses Genesis 11:10-32 to share the importance of giving God the glory he deserves. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Passages: Genesis 11:10-32 Related episode: What Kingdom Are You A Part Of? Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Keith Simon.
0:11.8	I'm Tanya Wilma. I'm Jensen Holt McNair. And I'm Patrick Miller. We are exploring
0:16.6	the first books of the Bible. Right now we are in Genesis. If you're like me you you love email newsletters, but most of them don't bring me closer to God.
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0:33.1	Once a week, you'll get a blessably short email
0:36.2	with guides on spiritual disciplines,
0:38.6	inspiring challenges to grow,
0:41.0	interesting cultural backgrounds on today's passage and even quick studies of Hebrew
0:45.9	and Greek words. Each week's going to be a little bit different and you're going to love
0:50.1	the variety, so stop what you're doing, click the link in the show notes and sign up today
0:55.1	now let's hop into today's episode.
0:59.0	The Hebrew Bible is full of wordplay unfortunately since most of us are not Hebrew readers, we miss out on a lot of the fun.
1:06.3	A lot of the translations we read, they're able to kind of make it work in English, but sometimes
1:11.2	there's just no way to do it.
1:13.4	Genesis 11 includes a little word play that translations really can't catch.
1:18.6	It's not fun, it's not funny, but I think it really is profound. Genesis 11, you'll remember, it begins with the story of the Tower of Babble.
1:27.0	Now you can go back to yesterday's episode with Jensen to go into more depth on that story.
1:32.0	But a quick recap, humans rebel against God another time.
1:36.0	This time they're building a tower,
1:38.0	which is probably a zigorate, which is an ancient temple.
1:41.0	And they're building this zigorate so that it will reach up into the heavens.
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