Genesis 11:2

In 11 translations

BSB

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.Or from the east or in the eastThat is, Babylonia

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.from…: or, eastward

WEB

As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.LXX reads “from the east”.

ASV

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

LSV

and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

And as they went from the East, they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and there they abode.

JPS

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

LXXE

And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they dwelt there.

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WLC

וַֽיְהִ֖י בְּנָסְעָ֣ם מִקֶּ֑דֶם וַֽיִּמְצְא֥וּ בִקְעָ֛ה בְּאֶ֥רֶץ שִׁנְעָ֖ר וַיֵּ֥שְׁבוּ שָֽׁם׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ κινῆσαι αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν, εὗρον πεδίον ἐν γῇ Σεναὰρ, καὶ κατῴκησαν ἐκεῖ.

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• Daniel 1:2And 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…
• Genesis 10:10His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
• Genesis 14:1In those days Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim
• Isaiah 11:11On 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.
• 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.”
• Genesis 13:11So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
• Genesis 11:9That 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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