Genesis 11:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the humans built.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then the Lord descended to see the city and the tower, which the sons of Adam were building.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 11:5 Cross References

Genesis 18:21

I must go down and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me, and if not, I will know.”

Psalm 11:4

The Lord is in his holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes behold; his gaze examines humankind.

Exodus 19:11

and prepare for the third day, because on the third day the Lord will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Exodus 19:18

Now all of Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke, because the Lord had descended upon it in fire; the smoke went up like the smoke of a kiln, while the whole mountain shook violently.

Exodus 19:20

When the Lord descended upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, the Lord summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Exodus 3:8

and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

John 3:13

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

Hebrews 4:13

And before him no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account.