Scripture · Old Testament
Genesis 11:2
Genesis 11:2 is verse 2 of Genesis chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Or from the east or in the east
That is, Babylonia
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 dwelt there.
World English Bible
As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
LXX reads “from the east”.
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Genesis 11:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
2 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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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
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.
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 treasury of his god.
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.”