Genesis 11:5

Genesis 11:5 in other translations

Genesis 11:5 in context

1. 3They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
2. 4They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
3. 5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
4. 6Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
5. 7Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”