Parallel Bible results for "Genesis 11:1-6"

Genesis 11:1-6

Common English Bible CEB

1 All people on the earth had one language and the same words.

2 When they traveled east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them hard." They used bricks for stones and asphalt for mortar.

4 They said, "Come, let's build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and let's make a name for ourselves so that we won't be dispersed over all the earth."

5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the humans built.

6 And the LORD said, "There is now one people and they all have one language. This is what they have begun to do, and now all that they plan to do will be possible for them.

New International Version NIV

1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

2 As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.

4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.

6 The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.