1. Let us build a city (1-9)

Noah's descendants spoke one language. When they moved eastward, they found a plain and built a city. They worked hard together to build a tower but with 3 wrong motives and purposes (V4): 1) To reach heaven: For they didn't believe God's love and his covenant of the rainbow. They wanted to protect themselves if God sends a flood again. 2) To make a name for themselves; God made men for God's glory but they only wanted to make their names great. 3) Not to be scattered: God blessed them "to fill the earth!" But they didn't want to obey God. God came down and saw. He only confused their language instead of destroying them again. Whatever we do, if we go against God's will, God will stop it. So it will not be successful.

2. Abram's account (10-32)

Amid unbelief and great confusion, God still prepared a seed of a new start of salvation. Among Shem's descendants, there was Abram, who would live by faith as the father of faith and his wife Sarai with Lot their cousin.