Genesis 11:5

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

Genesis 11:5 in Other Translations

KJV
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
ESV
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
NLT
5 But the LORD came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.
MSG
5 God came down to look over the city and the tower those people had built.
CSB
5 Then the Lord came down to look over the city and the tower that the men were building.

Genesis 11:5 In-Context

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

Cross References 1

  • 1. ver 7; Genesis 18:21; Exodus 3:8; Exodus 19:11,18,20; Psalms 18:9; Psalms 144:5
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