Genesis 11:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

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  • Gen 10:10 : 10 And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • Gen 14:1 : 1 Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
  • Dan 1:2 : 2 And the Lord gave into his hands Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with some of the vessels of the house of God; and he took them away into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he put the vessels into the store-house of his god.
  • Zech 5:11 : 11 And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

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    1 And all the earth had one language and one tongue.

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    5 And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.

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    7 Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

    8 So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.

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

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    1 Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

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