Genesis 11:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven: and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And they said, Come, let us build us a city and a tower whose top reaches into the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the whole earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And 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.

Common English Bible

⁴ They said, “Come, let’s build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves so that we won’t be dispersed over all the earth.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And they said: "Come, let us make a city and a tower, so that its height may reach to heaven. And let us make our name famous before we are divided into all the lands."

Genesis 11:4 Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:28

3 Who went before you in the way, and marked out the place, wherein you should pitch your tents, in the night shewing you the way by fire, and in the day by the pillar of a cloud.

John 5:44

When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes, and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

Luke 1:51

9 And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him by his father's name Zachary.

Daniel 4:30

Baltasar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.

Proverbs 10:7

4 Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the fool is next to confusion.

Deuteronomy 9:1

Know therefore that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this excellent land in possession for thy justices, for thou art a very stiffnecked people.

2 Samuel 8:13

8 And Banaias the son of Joiada was over the Cerethi and Phelethi: and the sons of David were the princes.

Daniel 4:11

9 Then Daniel, whose name was Baltassar, began silently to think within himself for about one hour: and his thoughts troubled him. But the king answering, said: Baltassar, let not the dream and the interpretation thereof trouble thee. Baltassar answered, and said: My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thy enemies.

Genesis 6:4

Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.

Daniel 4:22

0 And the king answered, and said: Is not this the great Babylon, which I have built to be the seat of the kingdom, by the strength of my power, and in the glory of my excellence?

Psalm 92:9

The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty: the Lord is clothed with strength, and hath girded himself. For he hath established the world which shall not be moved.

Deuteronomy 4:27

2 Ask of the days of old, that have been before thy time from the day that God created man upon the earth, from one end of heaven to the other end thereof, if ever there was done the like thing, or it hath been known at any time,

Psalm 107:26

3 He hath turned rivers into a wilderness: and the sources of water into dry ground:

Jeremiah 51:53

1 And Jeremias said to Saraias: When thou shalt come into Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words,

Daniel 4:27

5 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing before him: for he doth according to his will, I as well with the powers of heaven, as among the inhabitants of the earth: and there is none that can resist his hand, and say to him: Why hast thou done it?