However, it is important to note that differences among the people predate the scattering that occurs after the incident at the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. The table of nations is presented in Genesis 10—a human genealogy that reveals that differences along racial, ethnic, and cultural lines had already begun to form. We see that seeds of ethnic diversity already exist among the people even before the scattering. Prior to the building of the Tower, we find out in Genesis