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OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_descended YHWH for_seeing DOM the_city and_DOM the_tower which they_had_built the_children the_humankind.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וַיֵּ֣רֶד יְהוָ֔ה
and=he/it_descended YHWH
Alternate translation: “Then one day Yahweh came down from heaven”
לִרְאֹ֥ת אֶת הָעִ֖יר
for=seeing DOM the=city
The text implies that Yahweh actually looked at the city. Consider whether or not it is better in your language to make that explicit here. Alternate translation: “and inspected the city”
וְאֶת הַמִּגְדָּ֑ל
and=DOM the=tower
See how you translated this word in verse 4.
בָּנ֖וּ
they_had_built
Make sure the way you translate this verb fits with the fact that the people had not yet finished building the city (verse 8). Alternate translation: “had started building.”
11:5 came down: The tower was a human attempt to ascend to God’s realm (see Deut 26:15; Pss 2:4; 103:19; 115:16). The folly of that attempt was exposed by God’s “coming down” to see their feeble efforts.
OET (OET-LV) And_he/it_descended YHWH for_seeing DOM the_city and_DOM the_tower which they_had_built the_children the_humankind.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.