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Genesis 11:5

Context
NETBible

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people 1  had started 2  building.

XREF

Ge 18:21; Ex 19:11; Ps 11:4; Ps 33:13,14; Jer 23:23,24; Joh 3:13; Heb 4:13

NET © Notes

tn Heb “the sons of man.” The phrase is intended in this polemic to portray the builders as mere mortals, not the lesser deities that the Babylonians claimed built the city.

tn The Hebrew text simply has בָּנוּ (banu), but since v. 8 says they left off building the city, an ingressive idea (“had started building”) should be understood here.



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