Confusion followed, the building of the tower was forsaken, the people scattered up and down the valley; and so the tower of Babel was left to crumble into ruins.
ABRAHAM.
In the pleasant valley of Mesopotamia there lived a good man, whom the people loved, and who was called Abram.
Now, the people of this valley were idolaters, and though Abram often pleaded with them to return to the faith in one God, they would not listen to him. "Go thou your way, and we will go ours," they would say.
But God would not permit it to be that Abram's life should be spent upon a people who cared not for the good spirit that Abram shed everywhere about him. So He called to him and said, "Leave this valley. Go thou with thy people to the land of Canaan. There a son shall be born to you, and your descendants shall govern the land of Canaan."
Abram, simple hearted and trustful like Noah, gathered his possessions together, and with his wife, Sarah, and his nephew, Lot, set forth across the country towards the land of Canaan.
Now, Abram was a man of great wealth. He had silver and gold, and camels, and sheep and cattle, and armies of servants.