Genesis 11:2
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New International Version (©1984)
As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

New Living Translation (©2007)
As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
As people moved toward the east, they found a plain in Shinar [Babylonia] and settled there.

King James Bible
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

American King James Version
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there.

American Standard Version
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Bible in Basic English
And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.

English Revised Version
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

World English Bible
It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.

Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

Geneva Study Bible

And it came to pass, {a} as {b} they journeyed from the {c} east, that they found a plain in the land of {d} Shinar; and they dwelt there.

(a) One hundred and thirty years after the flood.

(b) That is, Nimrod and his company.

(c) That is, from Armenia where the ark stayed.

(d) Which was afterward called Chaldea.

Wesley's Notes

11:2 And they found a plain in the land of Shinar - A spacious plain, able to contain them all.

King James Translators' Notes

from...: or, eastward

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. land of Shinar-The fertile valley watered by the Euphrates and Tigris was chosen as the center of their union and the seat of their power.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:1-4 How soon men forget the most tremendous judgments, and go back to their former crimes! Though the desolations of the deluge were before their eyes, though they sprang from the stock of righteous Noah, yet even during his life-time, wickedness increases exceedingly. Nothing but the sanctifying grace of the Holy Spirit can remove the sinful lusts of the human will, and the depravity of the human heart. God's purpose was, that mankind should form many nations, and people all lands. In contempt of the Divine will, and against the counsel of Noah, the bulk of mankind united to build a city and a tower to prevent their separating. Idolatry was begun, and Babel became one of its chief seats. They made one another more daring and resolute. Let us learn to provoke one another to love and to good works, as sinners stir up and encourage one another to wicked works.


Genesis 10:10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 14:1 And it came about in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
Daniel 1:2 The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god. (NASB ©1995)

Country Dwell Dwelt East Eastward Find Flat Found Journeyed Journeying Living-Place Moved Plain Settled Shinar Stretch Traveled Valley Wandering


And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

from the east. or, eastward. 13:11

Shinar. See on ver. 9 10:10 14:1 Isa 11:11 Da 1:2 Zec 5:11

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