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Genesis 11:3-5
GOD’S WORD Translation
Genesis 11:3-5
GOD’S WORD Translation
3 They said to one another, “Let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used bricks as stones and tar [a] as mortar.
4 Then they said, “Let’s build a city for ourselves and a tower with its top in the sky. Let’s make a name for ourselves so that we won’t become scattered all over the face of the earth.”
5 The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the descendants of Adam were building.
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- 11:3 Or “bitumen.”
Genesis 11:3-5
New International Version
Genesis 11:3-5
New International Version
3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks(A) and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone,(B) and tar(C) for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens,(D) so that we may make a name(E) for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered(F) over the face of the whole earth.”(G)
5 But the Lord came down(H) to see the city and the tower the people were building.
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