Genesis 11:5
King James Version (KJV)
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
In context
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.
5 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.
Genesis 11:5 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- WEB World English Bible
- The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.