Genesis 11:5 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”
Genesis 11:5 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Genesis 11:5 in 7 Bible Translations
Read Genesis 11:5 in the King James Version (KJV) and 6 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Genesis 11:5 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.”
Genesis 11:5 — World English Bible
Genesis 11:5 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. ”
Genesis 11:5 — American Standard Version
Genesis 11:5 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;”
Genesis 11:5 — Young's Literal Translation
Genesis 11:5 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.”
Genesis 11:5 — Darby Translation
Genesis 11:5 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“But the Lord came downe, to see the citie and towre, which the sonnes of men builded.”
Genesis 11:5 — Geneva Bible
Genesis 11:5 LS — The Living Sword (2024)
“And the Lord came down—to see the city and the tower which the children of man built.”
Genesis 11:5 — The Living Sword
Genesis 11:5 in Context — Genesis 11
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, 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.
5 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
What Does Genesis 11:5 Mean?
Genesis 11:5 is a verse from the Book of Genesis, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Genesis chapter 11. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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