When was the Tower of Babel Made?

Dear visitor,The Flood occurred in 2348 BC and the Tower of Babel was built, I generally assume, between 150 to 250 years later. Considering that Abraham left Ur about 2000 BC, the 22nd century BC seems a good bet for the Tower of Babel.

Remember, crashfrog, how long people lived at those times. Noah was still alive in Abraham's day. It would seem they could have plenty of children in that case, and did, since God's command was to replenish the earth. Anyway, I did the math when this question came up on another board, and using conservative doubling figures you could easily get the population of the UK or even the US.Mr Jack, the Jewish laws had not been given yet.

Continue reading and you will come to Genesis 9:3: "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you."

I cannot find which precisely were the clean ones (before the Flood). Your original question was how they would have enough clean animals; but God specifically says that they can eat any moving thing upon the earth - Genesis 9:3.

I take it that the evolutionary model is a tree, whereby all languages come from original grunts and animal noises. Many of you may think the creation model is a lawn, with all languages starting straight off at Babel, but actually it's more of an orchard. Several language groups were created by God at Babel. Over time, as groups spread out, different dialects became entirely different tongues. I was looking at a book on old Anglo-Saxon the other day and I found that a certain form (past participle?) of "to become" was identical to its equivalent in modern German. In fact I've heard English referred to as "Low German".
This just goes to show that the farther back in time you go, the closer languages get together. However, there are no (historical) links between different language groups.
In Maori (language of first New Zealanders) the word for fish is "ika", somewhat similar to the Greek "ichthyos". There is a theory that Maori originally came from the Egyptian region, which would explain any influences of that area. "Ra" is the Maori word for sun.crashfrog, I posted an answer to the population question on another forum a while back. As soon as I have the energy to go find it I'll copy my mathematics on a new thread in, say, the "Bible Accuracy and Inerrancy" forum.