Genesis 11:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Genesis 11:4 Cross References

Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown.

2 Samuel 8:13

David won a name for himself. When he returned, he killed eighteen thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

Psalm 107:26

They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their calamity;

Psalm 92:9

For your enemies, O Lord, for your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.

Proverbs 10:7

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

Jeremiah 51:53

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, from me destroyers would come upon her, says the Lord.

Daniel 4:11

The tree grew great and strong, its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the ends of the whole earth.

Daniel 4:22

it is you, O king! You have grown great and strong. Your greatness has increased and reaches to heaven, and your sovereignty to the ends of the earth.

Daniel 4:27

Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for your sins with righteousness and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”

Daniel 4:30

and the king said, “Is this not magnificent Babylon, which I have built as a royal capital by my mighty power and for my glorious majesty?”

Luke 1:51

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

John 5:44

How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?

Deuteronomy 1:28

Where are we headed? Our kindred have made our hearts melt by reporting, “The people are stronger and taller than we; the cities are large and fortified up to heaven! We actually saw there the offspring of the Anakim!” ’

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples; only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will lead you.

Deuteronomy 9:1

“Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens,