Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Genesis 11:5
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Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
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And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
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And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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Genesis 11
3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
6 And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
7 Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
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