Genesis 11:4 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
And 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.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
And they said: “Come, let us make a city and a tower, so that its height may reach to heaven. And let us make our name famous before we are divided into all the lands.”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
And 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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
And 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.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
And they said, Come, 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.
LSV Literal Standard Version
And they say, “Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower with 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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Darby Darby Translation
And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
And they said, come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] to heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we should be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top will reach to the sky, and let us make a name for ourselves. If we do not, we will be scattered across the surface of the whole earth.”
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Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
And they said: 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, with its top in heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.'
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
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.'
FBV Free Bible Version
Then they said, “Now let's build a city for ourselves with a tower whose top reaches the heavens. That way we'll gain a great reputation and we won't end up being scattered all over the world.”
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Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Y dijeron: Vamos, edifiquémonos una ciudad y una torre, cuya cúspide [llegue] al cielo; y hagámonos un nombre, por si fuéremos esparcidos sobre la faz de toda la tierra.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Después dijeron: «Construyamos una ciudad con una torre altísima, que toque el cielo. Así nos haremos muy famosos y no tendremos que vivir por siempre errantes».
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Y dijeron: Vengan, construyámonos una ciudad y una torre cuya cúspide llegue al cielo. Hagámonos un nombre, en caso de que seamos esparcidos por la superficie de toda la tierra.
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Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Y entonces dijeron: “Construyamos ahora una ciudad para nosotros mismos con una torre cuya cúspide llegue hasta el cielo. Así lograremos tener una gran reputación y no andaremos dispersos por todo el mundo”.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Luego dijeron: «Vamos, construyamos una ciudad y una torre que llegue hasta el cielo. Hagámonos famosos para no ser dispersados por toda la tierra».
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Καὶ εἶπαν, δεῦτε οἰκοδομήσωμεν ἑαυτοῖς πόλιν καὶ πύργον, οὗ ἔσται ἡ κεφαλὴ ἕως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ποιήσωμεν ἑαυτοῖς ὄνομα, πρὸ τοῦ διασπαρῆναι ἡμᾶς ἐπὶ προσώπου πάσης τῆς γῆς.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ הָ֣בָה ׀ נִבְנֶה־לָּ֣נוּ עִ֗יר וּמִגְדָּל֙ וְרֹאשׁ֣וֹ בַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְנַֽעֲשֶׂה־לָּ֖נוּ שֵׁ֑ם פֶּן־נָפ֖וּץ עַל־פְּנֵ֥י כָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
et dixerunt: Venite, faciamus nobis civitatem et turrim, cujus culmen pertingat ad cælum: et celebremus nomen nostrum antequam dividamur in universas terras.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
И҆ реко́ша: прїиди́те, сози́ждемъ себѣ̀ гра́дъ и҆ сто́лпъ, є҆гѡ́же ве́рхъ бꙋ́детъ да́же до небесѐ: и҆ сотвори́мъ себѣ̀ и҆́мѧ, пре́жде не́же разсѣ́ѧтисѧ на́мъ по лицꙋ̀ всеѧ̀ землѝ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
И сказали они: построим себе город и башню, высотою до небес, и сделаем себе имя, прежде нежели рассеемся по лицу всей земли.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Και είπον, Έλθετε, ας οικοδομήσωμεν εις εαυτούς πόλιν και πύργον, του οποίου η κορυφή να φθάνη έως του ουρανού· και ας αποκτήσωμεν εις εαυτούς όνομα, μήπως διασπαρώμεν επί του προσώπου πάσης της γης.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
После рекоше: Хајде да сазидамо град и кулу, којој ће врх бити до неба, да стечемо себи име, да се не бисмо расејали по земљи.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Posle rekoše: Hajde da sazidamo grad i kulu, kojoj će vrh biti do neba, da stečemo sebi ime, da se ne bismo rasejali po zemlji.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
وَقَالُوا: «هَلُمَّ نَبْنِ لِأَنْفُسِنَا مَدِينَةً وَبُرْجًا رَأْسُهُ بِٱلسَّمَاءِ. وَنَصْنَعُ لِأَنْفُسِنَا ٱسْمًا لِئَلَّا نَتَبَدَّدَ عَلَى وَجْهِ كُلِّ ٱلْأَرْضِ».
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT