Gen. 10:5 vs. Gen. 11:1: Different Tongues or One Language?
● In the Torah (similar to the book of Matthew), sometimes they jump from one thing to another – not always in chronological order
○ The book of Luke, in contrast, is in order
● Gen 10:5 - "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations."
○ This gives you what it looked like after Noah, after the countries were established
■ The Sanhedrin court had to learn all 70 languages
○ This verse gives you the end result and then in Gen. 11 you learn why and how this result came about
● Gen. 11:7, 9-10 - "7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. ... 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel … 10 These [are] the generations of Shem: Shem [was] an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:"
○ It goes through the genealogy from Shem to Abraham, but before that it’s showing you how the world was divided up after the flood and where and what those languages ended up being