Genesis 11:4
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- whose
- Deuteronomy 1:28; Deuteronomy 9:1; Daniel 4:11, 22
- and let
- 2 Samuel 8:13; Psalm 49:11–13; Proverbs 10:7; Daniel 4:30; John 5:44
- lest
- Genesis 11:8, 9; Psalm 92:9; Luke 1:51