Generations and Generations of Problems

After many generations following Noah, humans suddenly got the idea to build a city/tower in Babel that would be tall enough to reach Heaven. But, God randomly decided to give different languages to each of the humans so that they wouldn't be able to communicate with each other. I find it a bit funny how it's always human curiosity that starts some kind of a problem or situation and then comes God to try to fix it in some way. So anyway, they were now scattered all around the world and the city was never finished.

About ten generations after a guy named Shem, came the descendant, Abram. This is where it starts to get a bit complicated, so here's the long story in a short version. Abram, Sarai (his wife), and Lot (his brother's son) journey to the south because God tells Abram to leave and promises him that he will make him a very good nation. So, they go through Canaan and later reach Egypt. But, they are soon sent out because of a wife/sister problem of Sarai. So, they go back to Canaan where Abram has a son with Hagar and is named Ishmael. God comes and visits Abram and Sarai. For some weird reason, he decides to change their names to Abraham and Sarah. Then, he decides to destroy a city called Sodom since almost everyone was sinful, but of course, Lot and his family lives. Anyway, going back to Sarah and Abraham, they have a child named Isaac. Since there is a lot of jealousy and problems between Sarah and Hagar, Hagar and her son, Ishmael, are sent to another place. But soon enough, Ishmael somehow manages to become the leader of a tribe after getting an Egyptian wife.

The Genesis seems to be very interesting in many ways. It's sort of like millions of different short stories that are all connected to each other. Almost every 4 chapters, there are always new main characters throughout the book (except God). It's a bit strange since the previous characters are never mentioned afterward, as if they were forgotten after many generations. Not only that, but the main problem of the story also keeps on changing.

I also noticed how most of these short stories explain how some of the things in our world started. One example would be the part about Babel:

Gen. 11
7] Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
[8] So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
[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.

Here, the text shows how the humans ended up scattered around the world with their different languages.

Anyway, the story of The Bible seems to have been a bit rushed, especially in the beginning. Every chapter, something new appears. But, even though some parts seems short, they all seem to state out or show what The Bible wants to show. Each little story of The Bible telling us an explanation of how something started or teaching us a moral.