Genesis 11:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

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  • Deut 1:28 : 28 whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim -- we have seen there.
  • Deut 9:1 : 1 `Hear, Israel, thou art passing over to-day the Jordan, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself; cities great and fenced in the heavens;
  • 2 Sam 8:13 : 13 And David maketh a name in his turning back from his smiting Aram in the valley of Salt -- eighteen thousand;
  • Ps 49:11-13 : 11 Their heart `is': Their houses `are' to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands. 12 And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off. 13 This their way `is' folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.
  • Ps 92:9 : 9 For, lo, Thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, Thine enemies, do perish, Separate themselves do all workers of iniquity.
  • Prov 10:7 : 7 The remembrance of the righteous `is' for a blessing, And the name of the wicked doth rot.
  • Dan 4:11 : 11 become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;
  • Dan 4:22 : 22 `Thou it `is', O king, for thou hast become great and mighty, and thy greatness hath become great, and hath reached to the heavens, and thy dominion to the end of the earth;
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 the king hath answered and said, Is not this that great Babylon that I have built, for the house of the kingdom, in the might of my strength, and for the glory of mine honour?
  • Luke 1:51 : 51 He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,
  • John 5:44 : 44 how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that `is' from God alone ye seek not?
  • Deut 4:27 : 27 and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,
  • Gen 6:4 : 4 The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they `are' the heroes, who, from of old, `are' the men of name.
  • Gen 11:8-9 : 8 And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city; 9 therefore hath `one' called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 11:1-3
    3 verses
    88%

    1And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,

    2and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

    3and they say each one to his neighbour, `Give help, let us make bricks, and burn `them' thoroughly:' and the brick is to them for stone, and the bitumen hath been to them for mortar.

  • Gen 11:5-9
    5 verses
    87%

    5And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;

    6and Jehovah saith, `Lo, the people `is' one, and one pronunciation `is' to them all, and this it hath dreamed of doing; and now, nothing is restrained from them of that which they have purposed to do.

    7Give help, let us go down, and mingle there their pronunciation, so that a man doth not understand the pronunciation of his companion.'

    8And Jehovah doth scatter them from thence over the face of all the earth, and they cease to build the city;

    9therefore hath `one' called its name Babel, for there hath Jehovah mingled the pronunciation of all the earth, and from thence hath Jehovah scattered them over the face of all the earth.

  • Zech 5:11
    72%

    11And he saith unto me, `To build to it a house in the land of Shinar.' And it hath been prepared and hath been placed there on its base.

  • Ezek 11:3
    72%

    3who are saying, It `is' not near -- to build houses, it `is' the pot, and we the flesh.

  • Ezra 5:4
    71%

    4Then thus we have said to them, `What `are' the names of the men who are building this building?'

  • Luke 14:29-30
    2 verses
    70%

    29lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,

    30saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

  • Dan 4:11
    69%

    11become great hath the tree, yea, strong, and its height doth reach to the heavens, and its vision to the end of the whole land;

  • Gen 1:26
    69%

    26And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.'

  • Neh 4:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5and do not cover over their iniquity, and their sin from before Thee let not be blotted out, for they have provoked to anger -- over-against those building.

    6And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined -- unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.

  • Deut 1:28
    69%

    28whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim -- we have seen there.

  • Josh 22:26
    69%

    26`And we say, Pray let us prepare for ourselves to build the altar -- not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice --

  • Ezra 5:9
    69%

    9Then we have asked of these elders, thus we have said to them, Who hath made for you a decree this house to build, and this wall to finish?

  • Gen 1:15
    68%

    15and they have been for luminaries in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:' and it is so.

  • Isa 2:15
    68%

    15And for every high tower, And for every fenced wall,

  • Gen 10:10
    68%

    10And the first part of his kingdom is Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar;