<h2 class="nobreak"><SPAN name="THE_TOWER_OF_BABEL" id="THE_TOWER_OF_BABEL"></SPAN>THE TOWER OF BABEL.</h2>
<p>Children were born to Ham, Shem, and
Japheth; and when these children became men
and women, children were born to them, until,
after many, many years, the valley was again
filled with people,—all descendants from Noah
and his three sons.</p>
<p>Now, there came a time, long after Noah
had died, and so could guide his people no
longer into the paths of right, that the people
again grew wicked and selfish to one another.</p>
<p>They boasted of their power, and said
among themselves, "We will build a tower
that shall reach into heaven itself. Then who
in heaven or earth shall be greater than we?"</p>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</SPAN></span>Now, God was angry that these people
should have forgotten the God of their fathers,
and that the trustful, humble soul of Noah
should so have departed from them.</p>
<p>So, while all the people were at work
upon the tower, now risen above the trees and
hill-tops, God touched them; and behold, from
that instant each spoke a language of his own;
nor could one of them understand any other.</p>
<p>Confusion followed, the building of the
tower was forsaken, the people scattered up
and down the valley; and so the tower of
Babel was left to crumble into ruins.</p>
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<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</SPAN></span>
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