Genesis 11:5
Genesis chapter 11 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Context
v.4And they said, Come, 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.
v.5This passage
v.6And Jehovah said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 19:18
And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
- Exodus 3:8
and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 19:20
And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
- Psalms 33:13
Jehovah looketh from heaven; He beholdeth all the sons of men;
- Hebrews 4:13
And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
- Genesis 18:21
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.