Genesis 11:5
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
KJV
Descendit autem Dominus ut videret civitatem et turrim, quam ædificabant filii Adam,
Vulgate
καὶ κατέβη Κύριος ἰδεῖν τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸν πύργον ὃν ᾠκοδόμησαν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων.
LXX
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
ASV
וַ/יֵּ֣רֶד יְהוָ֔ה לִ/רְאֹ֥ת אֶת הָ/עִ֖יר וְ/אֶת הַ/מִּגְדָּ֑ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנ֖וּ בְּנֵ֥י הָ/אָדָֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אָדָ֖ם
'dm
noun · 545×
בְנ֣וֹת
bnvt
verb · 365×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יָרְד֥וּ
yrdv
verb · 377×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
מִגְדַּל
mgdl
noun · 49×
עִ֣יר
'yr
noun · 1093×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§57This state of division into many nations, each entrusted by divine providence to the guardianship of angels, is at once cosmic, social and religious. It is intended to limit the pride of fallen humanity10 united only in its perverse ambition to forge its own unity as at Babel.11 But, because of sin, both polytheism and the idolatry of the nation and of its rulers constantly thr…
Cross-references
- Eph 4:9 — (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
- Exod 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the
- Exod 19:11 — And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
- Exod 19:20 — And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
- Gen 3:9 — And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
- Gen 18:21 — I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
- Gen 18:21 — I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
- Gen 31:42 — Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuke
- Heb 4:13 — Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
- Jer 23:23 — Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
- John 3:13 — And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
- Num 11:17 — And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it no
- Ps 11:4 — The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’s throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
- Ps 33:13 — The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.