Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 11:3

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 11:3 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 11:3. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, the people wanted to build something strong and big, so they made hard bricks and used sticky stuff to hold them together. They talked to each other and shared the idea of building something together.

Genesis 11:3: And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. [they said...: Heb. a man said to his neighbour] [burn...: Heb. burn them to a burning]

Contradiction with Genesis 11:9

This verse implies that the dispersion of people and the confusion of language was God's intervention, contrasting with the unity depicted in Genesis 11:3.

Genesis 11:9: Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. [Babel: that is, Confusion]

Contradiction with Genesis 11:8

Here it states that the people were scattered abroad, contradicting their unified efforts to build in Genesis 11:3.

Genesis 11:8: So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.

Contradiction with Acts 2:6

The event of Pentecost brought understanding through different languages, contrasting with the confusion and single language in Genesis 11:3.

Acts 2:6: Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. [was...: Gr. voice was made confounded: or, troubled in mind]

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 1:10

Paul calls for unity and no divisions, which opposes the united effort for self-serving intentions in Genesis 11:3.

1 Corinthians 1:10: Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and [that] there be no divisions among you; but [that] ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. [divisions: Gr. schisms]
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