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[B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 11:28 . . Haran died in the lifetime of his father Terah, in his native land, Ur of the Chaldeans.[/B]

The Grim Reaper cares not for the age of its victims, whether young or whether old. Haran died before his dad. Many a parent has buried their children before they even had a chance to live.

You know, anybody can die; it's not all that difficult; and people don't have to be old nor do they have to be especially intelligent. ...

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[B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 11:6 . . and Yhvh said: If, as one people with one language for all, this is how they have begun to act, then nothing that they may propose to do will be out of their reach.[/B]

I don't think Yhvh objected to the people's unity per se. I mean, after all; it's Christ's wish that his church be unified (John 17:1-26). I think what He objected to was the direction that humanity's unity was taking; and it was no doubt similar to the ...

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[B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 11:1 . . Everyone on earth had the same language and the same words.[/B]

The Hebrew word for "language" is from [I]saphah[/I] (saw-faw') which means: the lip. The one for "words" is from[I] dabar[/I] (daw-baw') which means: a word (as spoken or written)

Spoken languages are a combination of words and lips; viz: vocabulary and pronunciation; viz: accent. It's one thing to know the words of ...

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[B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 10:1 . .These are the lines of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah: sons were born to them after the Flood.[/B]

Chapter ten is a tiresome list of genealogies that some have found interesting enough to devote entire books; generating a catalogue of nations connecting Noah's descendants to the ancient civilizations and even today's. But I'm going to comment upon only a few salient features.

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[B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 9:24-25a . .When Noah woke up from his wine and learned what his youngest son had done to him, he said: Cursed be Canaan;[/B]

I'd imagine that Canaan objected very strongly upon hearing a curse pronounced upon himself when it was not him but his dad who embarrassed grandpa. What did Canaan do to deserve a curse? Not a thing. Then why did Noah curse Ham's son instead of cursing Ham? The answer to that is located in the passage ...