Genesis 11:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And as they journeyed eastward, they found a plain (valley) in the land of Shinar, and they settled and dwelt there.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

When they traveled east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when they were advancing from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt in it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 11:2 Cross References

Genesis 10:10

And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Genesis 11:1

And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

Genesis 11:9

Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 13:11

So Lot chose him all the Plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

Genesis 14:1

And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

Isaiah 11:11

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Daniel 1:2

And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

Zechariah 5:11

And he said unto me, To build her an house in the land of Shinar: and when it is prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.