Genesis 11:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 18:21 : 21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."
  • Exod 19:11 : 11 and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
  • Exod 3:8 : 8 I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
  • Exod 19:20 : 20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
  • John 3:13 : 13 No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
  • Ps 11:4 : 4 Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
  • Ps 33:13-14 : 13 Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. 14 From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
  • Jer 23:23-24 : 23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off? 24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
  • Exod 19:18 : 18 Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 11:1-4
    4 verses
    87%

    1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

    2 It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

    3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

    4 They said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."

  • Gen 11:6-9
    4 verses
    84%

    6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

    7 Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

    8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

    9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

  • Ps 14:2
    71%

    2 Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

  • Gen 18:20-21
    2 verses
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    20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

    21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

  • Exod 19:20
    70%

    20 Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

  • Zech 5:11
    69%

    11 He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."

  • Gen 28:12
    69%

    12 He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

  • Mic 1:3
    69%

    3 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

  • Jer 31:38
    68%

    38 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.

  • Ps 53:2
    68%

    2 God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

  • Gen 6:5
    68%

    5 Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

  • Gen 6:1
    68%

    1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

  • Gen 19:28
    68%

    28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

  • Acts 2:6
    67%

    6 When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

  • Exod 34:5
    67%

    5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh.

  • Isa 25:12
    67%

    12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Hag 1:8
    67%

    8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

  • Gen 19:13
    67%

    13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

  • Num 12:5
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    5 Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.

  • 1 Kgs 6:11
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    11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,