2It happened, as they traveled east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.


In Context

1 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.

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

3 They said one to another, |Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.| They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.

4 They said, |Come, let's build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.|

Genesis 11:2 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

11:2As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

11:2And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:2And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

11:2And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

11:2and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

11:2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there.