Genesis 11:5
Good News Translation
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which they had built,

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.

Contemporary English Version
But when the LORD came down to look at the city and the tower,

New American Bible
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.

Genesis 18:21 I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.

Exodus 19:11 And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.

Psalm 11:4 For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

Psalm 33:13,14 The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men. . . .

Jeremiah 23:23,24 Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? . . .

John 3:13 And no man hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man who is in heaven.

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

Context
The Tower of Babel
4And 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. 5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of Adam were building.6And he said: Behold, it is one people, and all have one tongue: and they have begun to do this, neither will they leave off from their designs, till they accomplish them in deed.…
Cross References
Genesis 18:21
I will go down and see whether they have done according to the cry that is come to me; or whether it be not so, that I may know.

Exodus 3:8
And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

Exodus 19:11
And let them be ready against the third day; for on the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people, upon Mount Sinai.

Exodus 19:18
And all Mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.

Genesis 11:4
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