Genesis 10-11 provide genealogy details of the descendants of Noah. The account of the tower of Babel explains how the descendants were scattered over the all the earth. They had attempted to glorify themselves and "make a name" for themselves ( v.4) by building a city with a tower that reached to the heavens, "but the Lord came down ... and confused their language so they will not understand each other... scattered them from there... and they stopped building the city."