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Episode 6 · Genesis 11

The Tower of Babel

Animated Bible story for kids. A tower that was too tall, and languages all mixed up.

Length: 8 min 19 · Watch on YouTube

The story

The Tower That Was Too Tall. On the plain of Shinar, everyone speaks the same language. The people bake bricks and decide to build a tower that reaches the sky, to make a name for themselves. God comes down, mixes up their language, and they are scattered over the whole earth. Grandma Adjoua tells Kofi and Nia why there are so many languages, and why God understands them all.

The Bible passage

From the book of Genesis, chapter 11.

Read Genesis 11 in the Bible (New International Version)

In this episode

Each time mark opens the video on YouTube at the right moment.

  1. 0:00Under the Baobab
  2. 0:46One Language
  3. 1:30Bricks and Tar
  4. 2:13A Tower Up to the Sky
  5. 3:16God Comes Down to See
  6. 4:07The Words Get Mixed Up
  7. 4:56To the Four Corners of the Earth
  8. 6:14Night in the Village
  9. 6:58The song: God understands every language

The song: God understands every language

One brick, two bricks, the tower climbs to the sky.
In every language on the earth, God understands us!

The children sing it at the end of the episode, at 6:58.

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Also in French

The series also exists in French as “La Bible sous le baobab”, with the same episodes and the same songs.

This episode in French