Here's a question from the inbox, Dear Pastor John, my name is Jeremy, a 30-year-old living

and working in Hollywood.

My question is about the Tower of Babel, where God confused their language as punishment.

Was this the beginning of all other ethnicities, separate from Israel?

I've always stumbled over the vast racial representation on Earth, stemming from just Adam

and Eve, or just from Noah.

Was the Bible imply anything about this or is it simply a mystery?

Let me try to give what I think is a probable answer to the question, as it relates to the

Tower of Babel and Noah, but then shift the focus onto what the Apostle Paul does with

this answer, which I think is far more important than the precise answer to when and how all

the thousands of different ethnicities came into being.

After the flood in Genesis chapter 9 verse 19, it says, these three were the sons of Noah

and from these, the people of the whole Earth were dispersed.

So all the people, people, I haven't said people yet, I haven't said ethnicities, I'm

saying people, all the people of the Earth derive from Noah's offspring.

Then at the end of chapter 10, we haven't gotten to Babel yet, that's chapter 11.

At the end of chapter 10, verse 32, the author delineates, I mean, in this chapter, he delineates

the genealogies, the whole chapter genealogies of Noah's children, then he says, these are

the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations.

And from these, the nations, the families, the ethnicities spread abroad on the Earth

after the flood, as Genesis 1032.

So here he makes explicit that not just people in general, but nations, different nations,

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