5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.


In Context

2 And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

3 And 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.

4 And they said, come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we should be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.

6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

Genesis 11:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:5But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:5And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:5And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:5Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:5And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.