Lee Yen and I got married in our late twenties. I was 30 when Sharmaine was born. Many in our culture would consider that as being late. But I am amazed at the ages at which our forefathers had children. Genesis 11:10, This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood. With time the chapter records that they had children earlier starting to match our current day situation. The other dynamics that was happening is that the population was increasing and greater demand was made for housing everyone in one big city. But God did not approve of this because man may fall again and so He confused their languages and they started to create separate communities. Genesis 11:7-8, Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. God then continued to have strong int...