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Genesis 11:5

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3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may 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.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 33:13–14

    The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.

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  • Genesis 18:21

    I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

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  • John 3:13

    And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

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  • Hebrews 4:13

    Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

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  • Jeremiah 23:23–24

    Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?

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  • Exodus 19:11

    And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

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  • Psalms 11:4

    The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

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  • Exodus 19:20

    And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

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