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Genesis 11:5

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3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.Select Genesis 11:3

4And 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.Select Genesis 11:4

5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.Select Genesis 11:5

6And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.Select Genesis 11:6

7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.Select Genesis 11:7

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11:5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

ASV

11:5 And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

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