Genesis 10-11

S - Genesis 10-11
O - I last stopped at Genesis 9. Chapter 10 is a genealogy from Noah's 3 sons Shem, Ham and Japheth all the way down to Abram.
Seems like people in those days would have the land they owned named after them. Or perhaps it was their family/clan name.
I mapped out all the names; in Chapter 11 there is an account of Shem starting from 2 years after the flood, and the man named Abram came about like this:
(Noah -->) Shem --> Arphaxad --> Shelah --> Eber --> Peleg --> Reu --> Serug --> Nahor --> Terah

Terah had 3 sons: Nahor, Haran and Abram.
Haran died in Ur, had children Lot and Iscah.
Nahor married wife Milcah who was from/ a child of Haran.
Abram's wife is Sarai.

Chapter 10 also mentions which clans live in which parts of the land.
The concluding sentence is
32 These are the clans of Noah's sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

The start of chapter 11 is about the tower of Babel.
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth." 5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6 The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." 8 So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel--because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.


I must say I still don't really get this part. According to my understanding, the people all wanted to build this huge tower that reached the heavens so they they would be well-known for the success and to show the material wealth they had. It would be built with their own strength and power - without God.
To stop them, God confused their language so that they couldn't understand each other and they were all scattered to different parts of the earth, so the city wasn't built.
Babel sounds like confused in Hebrew *