Confusion

Y: 1830 | The tower of Babel falls and the confusion of languages
Genesis 11:5-9, Jasher 9:32-39, 10:2-5, Jubilees 10:21-27
And they built the tower: 43 years were they building it; its breadth was 203 bricks, and the height of a brick was the 3rd of 1; its height amounted to 5433 cubits and 2 palms, and the extent of 1 wall was 13 stades and of the other 30 stades.

And the Lord descended, and we descended with him to see the city and the tower which the children of men had built.
And the LORD said, “Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined doing.”

And God said to the 70 angels who stood foremost before him, to those who were near to him, saying, “Come let us descend and confuse their tongues, that one man shall not understand the language of his neighbor,” and they did so unto them.

And from that day following, they forgot each man his neighbor’s tongue, and they could not understand to speak in one tongue, and when the builder took from the hands of his neighbor lime or stone which he did not order, the builder would cast it away and throw it upon his neighbor, that he would die. And they did so many days, and they killed many of them in this manner.

And the Lord smote the 3 divisions that were there, and he punished them according to their works and designs; those who said, “We will ascend to heaven and serve our gods,” became like apes and elephants; and those who said, “We will smite the heaven with arrows,” the Lord killed them, one man through the hand of his neighbor; and the 3rd division of those who said, “We will ascend to heaven and fight against him,” the Lord scattered them throughout the earth.

And those who were left among them, when they knew and understood the evil which was coming upon them, they forsook the building, and they also became scattered upon the face of the whole earth.

And they ceased building the city and the tower; therefore he called that place Babel, for there the Lord confounded the Language of the whole earth; behold it was at the east of the land of Shinar.

And as to the tower which the sons of men built, the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up 1/3 part thereof, and fire also descended from heaven and burned another 1/3, and the other 1/3 is left to this day, and it is of that part which was aloft, and its circumference is 3 days’ walk. And many of the sons of men died in that tower, a people without number. And the Lord sent a mighty wind against the tower and overthrew it upon the earth, and behold it was between Asshur and Babylon in the land of Shinar, and they called its name ‘Overthrow’.

And when the Lord had scattered the sons of men on account of their sin at the tower, behold they spread forth into many divisions, and all the sons of men were dispersed into the 4 corners of the earth. And all the families became according to their language, their land, or their city. And the sons of men built many cities according to their families, in all the places where they went, and throughout the earth where the Lord had scattered them. And some of them built cities in places from which they were afterward extirpated, and they called these cities after their own names, or the names of their children, or after their particular occurrences.

Y: 1831 | Cities are built
Genesis 11:10-11, Jasher 10:7-39, Jubilees 10:28-36
And the children of Ham were Cush, Mitzraim, Phut, and Canaan according to their generation and cities. All these went and built themselves cities as they found fit places for them in the south, and they called their cities after the names of their fathers Cush, Mitzraim, Phut, and Canaan.
And Canaan saw the land of Lebanon to the river of Egypt, that it was very good, and he went not into the land of his inheritance to the west that is to the sea, and he dwelt in the land of Lebanon, eastward and westward from the border of Jordan and from the border of the sea.

And Ham, his father, and Cush and Mizraim his brothers said unto him: “You have settled in a land which is not yours, and which did not fall to us by lot: do not do so; for if you do so, you and your sons will fall in the land and be accursed through sedition; for by sedition you have settled, and by sedition will your children fall, and you shall be rooted out forever. Dwell not in the dwelling of Shem; for to Shem and to his sons did it come by their lot. Cursed are you, and cursed will you be beyond all the sons of Noah, by the curse by which we bound ourselves by an oath in the presence of the holy judge, and in the presence of Noah our father.”

But he did not listen to them, and dwelt in the land of Lebanon from Hamath to the entering of Egypt, he and his sons until this day. And for this reason that land is named Canaan.

And the children of Mitzraim are the Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuchim, Pathrusim, Casluchim, and Caphturim, 7 families. All these dwell by the river Sihor, which is the brook of Egypt, and they built themselves cities and called them after their own names. And the children of Pathros and Casloch intermarried together, and from them went forth the Pelishtim, the Azathim, and the Gerarim, the Githim, and the Ekronim, in all 5 families; these also built themselves cities, and they called their cities after the names of their fathers unto this day. And the children of Canaan also built themselves cities, and they called their cities after their names, 11 cities, and others without number.

And 4 men from the family of Ham went to the land of the plain; these are the names of the 4 men, Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboyim. And these men built 4 cities in the land of the plain, and they called the names of their cities after their own names. And they and their children and all belonging to them dwelt in those cities, and they were fruitful and multiplied greatly and dwelt peaceably.

And Seir the son of Hur, son of Hivi, son of Canaan, went and found a valley opposite to Mount Paran, and he built a city there, and he and his 7 sons and his household dwelt there, and he called the city which he built Seir, according to his name; that is the land of Seir unto this day. These are the families of the children of Ham, according to their languages and cities, when they were scattered to their countries after the tower.

And these are the sons of Japheth according to their families, Gomer, Magog, Medai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech and Tiras; these are the children of Japheth according to their generations.

And Japheth and his sons went towards the sea and dwelt in the land of their portion, and Madai saw the land of the sea and it did not please him, and he begged a portion from Ham and Asshur and Arpachshad, his wife’s brother, and he dwelt in the land of Media, near to his wife’s brother until this day. And he called his dwelling-place, and the dwelling-place of his sons, Media, after the name of their father Madai.

And the children of Gomer, according to their cities, were the Francum, who dwell in the land of Franza, by the river Franza, by the river Senah.

And the children of Rephath are the Bartonim, who dwell in the land of Bartonia by the river Ledah, which empties its waters in the great sea Gihon, that is, Oceanus.

And the children of Tugarma are ten families, and these are their names: Buzar, Parzunac, Balgar, Elicanum, Ragbib, Tarki, Bid, Zebuc, Ongal, and Tilmaz; all these spread and rested in the north and built themselves cities. And they called their cities after their own names, those are they who abide by the rivers Hithlah and Italac to this day.

But the families of Angoli, Balgar, and Parzunac, dwell by the great river Dubnee; and the names of their cities are also according to their own names.

And the children of Javan are the Javanim who dwell in the land of Makdonia, and the children of Medai are the Orelum that dwell in the land of Curson, and the children of Tubal are those that dwell in the land of Tuskanah by the river Pashiah.

And the children of Meshech are the Shibashni and the children of Tiras are Rushash, Cushni, and Ongolis; all these went and built themselves cities; those are the cities that are situated by the sea Jabus by the river Cura, which empties itself in the river Tragan.

And the children of Elishah are the Almanim, and they also went and built themselves cities; those are the cities situated between the mountains of Job and Shibathmo; and of them were the people of Lumbardi who dwell opposite the mountains of Job and Shibathmo, and they conquered the land of Italia and remained there to this day.

And the children of Chittim are the Romim who dwell in the valley of Canopia by the river Tibreu.

And the children of Dudonim are those who dwell in the cities of the sea Gihon, in the land of Bordna. These are the families of the children of Japheth according to their cities and languages when they were scattered after the tower, and they called their cities after their names and occurrences; and these are the names of all their cities according to their families, which they built in those days after the tower.

And some of the children of Shem son of Noah, father of all the children of Eber, also went and built themselves cities in the places wherein they were scattered, and they called their cities after their names. And the sons of Shem were Elam, Ashur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram, and they built themselves cities and called the names of all their cities after their names.

And Ashur son of Shem and his children and household went forth at that time, a very large body of them, and they went to a distant land that they found, and they met with a very extensive valley in the land that they went to, and they built themselves four cities, and they called them after their own names and occurrences. And these are the names of the cities which the children of Ashur built, Ninevah, Resen, Calach, and Rehobother; and the children of Ashur dwell there to this day.

And the children of Aram also went and built themselves a city, and they called the name of the city Uz after their eldest brother, and they dwell therein; that is the land of Uz to this day.

And in the 2nd year after the tower a man from the house of Ashur, whose name was Bela, went from the land of Ninevah to sojourn with his household wherever he could find a place; and they came until opposite the cities of the plain against Sodom, and they dwelt there. And the man rose up and built there a small city, and called its name Bela, after his name; that is the land of Zoar to this day. And these are the families of the children of Shem according to their language and cities after they were scattered upon the earth after the tower.

And every kingdom, city, and family of the families of children of Noah built many cities after this. And they established governments in all their cities, to be regulated by their orders; so did all the families of the children of Noah forever.

Y: 1832 | War between Noah’s sons
Jubilees 11:2-5
And the sons of Noah began to war on each other, to take captive and to slay each other, and to shed the blood of men on the earth, and to eat blood, and to build strong cities, and walls, and towers, and individuals began to exalt themselves above the nation, and to found the beginnings of kingdoms, and to go to war people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all began to do evil, and to acquire arms, and to teach their sons war, and they began to capture cities, and to sell male and female slaves.

And ‘Ûr, the son of Kesed, built the city of ‘Ara of the Chaldees and called its name after his own name and the name of his father. And they made for themselves molten images, and they worshipped each the idol, the molten image which they had made for themselves, and they began to make graven images and unclean simulacra, and malignant spirits assisted and seduced them into committing transgression and uncleanness. And the prince Mastêmâ exerted himself to do all this, and he sent forth other spirits, those which were put under his hand, to do all manner of wrong and sin, and all manner of transgression, to corrupt and destroy, and to shed blood upon the earth. For this reason, he called the name of Sêrôh, Serug, for every one turned to do all manner of sin and transgression.

Y: 1850 | Serug marries Melka
Jubilees 11:6
And Serug grew up, and dwelt in Ur of the Chaldees, near to the father of his wife’s mother, and he worshipped idols, and he took to himself a wife in the 36th jubilee, in the 5th week, in the 1st year and her name was Melka, the daughter of Kaber, the daughter of his father’s brother.