Genesis 11:5
ContextNET © | But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people 1 had started 2 building. |
NIV © | But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. |
NASB © | The LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. |
NLT © | But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. |
MSG © | GOD came down to look over the city and the tower those people had built. |
BBE © | And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building. |
NRSV © | The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built. |
NKJV © | But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. |
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NET © | But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people 1 had started 2 building. |
NET © Notes |
1 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. 2 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. |