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Babel's Reach

Name: Babel's Reach
Brand: GoodSalt
SKU: rbjas0381
Price: 64.11 ZAR
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The Tower of Babel rises in a spiraling structure across the plain, its upper form transforming into an enormous human hand stretched toward the heavens. The image portrays humanity’s ancient ambition to ascend by its own strength, echoing the Genesis account in which the people of Shinar build a city and tower “with its top in the heavens.” The reaching hand becomes the central symbol: aspiration, pride, unity without obedience, and the fragile boundary between human creativity and rebellion against God. In biblical context, Babel is not merely an unfinished building but a warning against self-exaltation. God confuses the language of the builders and scatters them, restraining a united project rooted in human glory rather than divine purpose. This artwork suits teaching on pride, judgment, human ambition, Genesis origins, and the need for humility before God.

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Rolf Jansson

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Trefwoorde	Babel Genesis 11 hand Sínear toring toring van Babel
Secondary Keywords	ambisie ancient city bereik confused languages divine judgment human pride rebellie scattered nations
Tertiary Keywords	biblical history Genesis human achievement humility lesson judgment sermon language confusion origins teaching plain of Shinar self exaltation
Die heilige skrif	Genesis 11:1-9 Genesis 11 1 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. 2 And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” 5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. 6 And the LORD said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” 8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

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Babel's Reach

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