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Plans for the Tower of Babel

Name: Plans for the Tower of Babel
Brand: GoodSalt
SKU: rhpas3496
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Builders of Babel gather around a stepped tower model inside a stone chamber, unveiling the design before leaders and craftsmen. The miniature structure rises in ascending terraces, while measuring tools, rolled plans, and construction vessels emphasize human planning, ambition, and organized labor. A child leans forward in wonder as elders consider the project, capturing the generational pride behind the city and its tower.

The scene draws from Genesis 11, where humanity, united by one language, set out to build a city and a tower reaching toward heaven. The biblical account exposes the danger of self-exaltation apart from God: the tower becomes a monument to human fame rather than faithful worship. God confuses their language and scatters them, turning Babel into a lasting symbol of pride, disobedience, and the limits of human power before the Lord.

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Keywords	Babel builders genesis tower model tower of Babel
Secondary Keywords	ancient city art construction craftsmen human pride language confusion old testament painting
Tertiary Keywords	ambition measuring tools Plans stepped tower stone chamber
Scriptures	Genesis 10:8-10 Genesis 11:1-9 Genesis 10 8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man. 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD.” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Genesis 11 1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

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