And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
WEB
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
YLT
And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
DBT
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)