Genesis 11:4

WEB

⁴They 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.”

KJV

⁴And 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.

BSB

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.”

FBV

⁴^[+] Then they said, “Now let's build a city for ourselves with a tower whose top reaches the heavens. That way we'll gain a great reputation and we won't end up being scattered all over the world.”

Related Resources

Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 1) - BibleProject
Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

John 5:44

⁴⁴How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

²⁸Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’”

Luke 1:51

⁵¹He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Daniel 4:30

³⁰The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Deuteronomy 9:1

¹Hear, Israel! You are to pass over the Jordan today, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to the sky,

Proverbs 10:7

⁷The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.

2 Samuel 8:13

¹³David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.

Psalms 49:11-13

¹¹Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. ¹²But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish. ¹³This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

Genesis 6:4

⁴The Nephilim^[+] were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God’s sons came in to men’s daughters and had children with them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Daniel 4:11

¹¹The tree grew and was strong. Its height reached to the sky and its sight to the end of all the earth.