Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
- BSB Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
- NKJV But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.
- NASB Now the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the men had built.
- NLT But the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower the people were building.
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- Ps 33:13–14Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.
- Gen 18:21I 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.”
- John 3:13No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.
- Heb 4:13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
- Jer 23:23–24“Am I a God at hand,” says Yahweh, “and not a God afar off?
- Exod 19:11and 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 19:20Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
- Ps 11:4Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
- Exod 3:8I 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 19:18All of Mount Sinai smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
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