Genesis 11:5
“And the LORD came downe to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”
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Genesis 11:5 Context
3And they sayd one to another; Goe to, let vs make bricke, and burne them thorowly. And they had bricke for stone, and slime had they for morter. 4And they said; Goe to, let vs build vs a city and a tower, whose top may reach vnto heauen, and let vs make vs a name, lest we be scattered abroad vpon the face of the whole earth. 5And the LORD came downe to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. 6And the LORD said; Behold, the people is one, and they haue all one language: and this they begin to doe: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they haue imagined to doe. 7Goe to, let vs go downe, and there cōfound their language, that they may not vnderstand one anothers speech.
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Other Translations for Genesis 11:5
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- King James Version
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
- Basic English Bible
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
- Darby Bible
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.
- Webster's Bible
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- World English Bible
And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
- Youngs Literal Bible
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Genesis 11:5
11:5 And the Lord came down to see the city - 'Tis an expression after the manner of men, he knew it as clearly as men know that which they come upon the place to view. And the tower which the children of men builded - Which speaks, Their weakness and frailty, it was a foolish thing for the children of men, worms of the earth, to defy heaven. Their sinfulness, they were the sons of Adam, so it is in the Hebrew; nay, of that Adam, that sinful disobedient Adam, whose children are by nature children of disobedience. Their distinction from the children of God, from whom those daring builders had separated themselves, and built this tower to support and perpetuate the separation.