Genesis 11:5 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
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
LSV Literal Standard Version
And YHWH comes down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have built;
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
And Jehovah came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men built.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men were building.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
But the Lord came downe, to see the citie and towre, which the sonnes of men builded.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
So Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the descendants of Adam had built.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men built.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah cometh down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men have builded;
FBV Free Bible Version
But the Lord came down to take a look at the city and the tower that the people were building.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Y descendió Jehová para ver la ciudad y la torre que edificaban los hijos de los hombres.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Entonces el Señor bajó para ver la ciudad y la torre que estaban edificando,
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Pero Yavé descendió para ver la ciudad y la torre que edificaban los hijos de los hombres.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Pero el Señor descendió para mirar la ciudad y la torre que estas personas estaban construyendo.
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)
Pero el Señor bajó para ver la ciudad y la torre que estaban construyendo.
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 κατέβη Κύριος ἰδεῖν τὴν πόλιν καὶ τὸν πύργον, ὃν ᾠκοδόμησαν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַיֵּ֣רֶד יְהוָ֔ה לִרְאֹ֥ת אֶת־הָעִ֖יר וְאֶת־הַמִּגְדָּ֑ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנ֖וּ בְּנֵ֥י הָאָדָֽם׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Descendit autem Dominus ut videret civitatem et turrim, quam ædificabant filii Adam,
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
И҆ сни́де гдⷭ҇ь ви́дѣти гра́дъ и҆ сто́лпъ, є҆го́же созида́ша сы́нове человѣ́честїи.
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 сошел Господь посмотреть город и башню, которые строили сыны человеческие.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Κατέβη δε ο Κύριος διά να ίδη την πόλιν και τον πύργον, τον οποίον ωκοδόμησαν οι υιοί των ανθρώπων.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
А Господ сиђе да види град и кулу, што зидаху синови човечији.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
A Gospod siđe da vidi grad i kulu, što zidahu sinovi čovečiji.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
فَنَزَلَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِيَنْظُرَ ٱلْمَدِينَةَ وَٱلْبُرْجَ ٱللَّذَيْنِ كَانَ بَنُو آدَمَ يَبْنُونَهُمَا.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT