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Genesis 11:5

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3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.

6 And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

7 Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

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BSB
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
KJV
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
WEB
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
ASV
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
DARBY
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
BLB
And YHWH came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built.
ÅB
Da steg Herren ned for å se byen og tårnet som menneskenes barn hadde begynt å bygge.
OTB
Herren kom ned for å se byen og tårnet som menneskene bygde.
B1930
Da steg Herren ned for å se byen og tårnet som menneskenes barn hadde begynt å bygge.

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