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Genesis 11:2

Shinar

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

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

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.”

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BSB
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
KJV
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.
WEB
As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
ASV
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
DARBY
And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.
BLB
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.
ÅB
Og da de dro fram mot øst, fant de en slette i landet Sinear, og de bosatte seg der.
OTB
Da de reiste østover, oppdaget de en slette i landet Sinear og slo seg ned der.
B1930
Og da de drog frem mot øst, fant de en slette i landet Sinear, og de bosatte sig der.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Daniel 1:2

    And the Lord delivered into his hand Jehoiakim king of Judah, along with some of the articles from the house of God. He carried these off to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, where he put them in the treasury of his god.

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  • Genesis 10:10

    His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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  • Genesis 14:1

    In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim

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  • Isaiah 11:11

    On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

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  • Zechariah 5:11

    “To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”

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  • Genesis 13:11

    So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

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  • Genesis 11:9

    That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

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