Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that {humankind} was building.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Holman Bible
Then the Lord came down
International Standard Version
However, the LORD descended to look over the city and the tower that the humans were building.
A Conservative Version
And LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Amplified
Now the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
Julia Smith Translation
And Jehovah will come down to see the city, and the tower which the sons of men built
King James 2000
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Modern King James verseion
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of Adam had built.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the children of Adam had built.
NET Bible
But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.
New Heart English Bible
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
The Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh came down, to behold the city, and the tower, - which the sons of men had built.
Webster
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.
World English Bible
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
Themes
Babel » A city » Plain » Shinar » Tower » Built
Dispersion » After building the tower of babel
Language » Confusion of » A punishment for presumption, &c
Interlinear
Yarad
Ra'ah
References
Easton
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 11:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Tower Of Babylon
4 And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top [reaches to] the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth." 5 Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that {humankind} was building. 6 And Yahweh said, "Behold, {they are one people with one language}, and {this is only the beginning of what they will do}. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them.
Cross References
Genesis 18:21
I will go down and I will see. Have they done altogether according to its cry of distress [which] has come to me? If not, I will know."
Exodus 19:11
and they must be prepared for the third day, because on the third day, Yahweh will go down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people.
Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of [the] Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Exodus 19:18
And Mount Sinai was all wrapped in smoke because Yahweh went down on it in the fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
Exodus 19:20
And Yahweh went down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
Psalm 11:4
Yahweh [is] in his holy temple; Yahweh [is] in the heavens [on] his throne. His eyelids see; they test [the] children of humankind.
Psalm 33:13-14
From heaven Yahweh looks; he sees all the children of humankind.
Jeremiah 23:23-24
[Am] I a God from near," {declares} Yahweh, "and not a God from far?
John 3:13
And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven--the Son of Man.
Hebrews 4:13
And no creature is hidden in the sight of him, but all [things are] naked and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom {we must give our account}.