SinaiGenesis 11:5
American Standard Version
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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Genesis 11:5 in other translations
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Genesis 11:5 in context
- 3And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
- 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.
- 5And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- 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.
- 7Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.