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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower. He saw that the people had started to build them. The Lord said, ‘Because they all speak the same language, they are able to do this. If they can do this together, they may decide to do whatever they want. Now we must go down to them. We must make their language become confused. Then they will not be able to understand each other.’

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Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do. Come, let’s go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

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But the Lord came down(A) to see the city and the tower the people were building. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language(B) they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us(C) go down(D) and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”(E)

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And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

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(A)But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed (B)the people are one and they all have (C)one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they (D)propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, (E)let Us go down and there (F)confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

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