Genesis 11:5 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 11:5

3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and¹ bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

4 And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower ^awhose top is in the heavens; let us make a ^bname for ourselves, lest we ^cbe scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”

5 ^aBut the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

6 And the Lord said, “Indeed ^athe people are one and they all have ^bone language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they ^cpropose to do will be withheld from them.

7 Come, ^alet Us go down and there ^bconfuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

8 So ^athe Lord scattered them abroad from there ^bover the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

Verse Comparison: Genesis 11:5

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American Standard Version
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

Amplified® Bible
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

Contemporary English Version
But when the LORD came down to look at the city and the tower,

Darby English Version
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

Good News Bible
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which they had built,

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

New American Standard Bible
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

New International Version
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.

New King James Version
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

Revised Standard Version
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

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