Genesis 11:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

And it happened, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and lived there.

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  • Gen 10:10 : 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • Gen 14:1 : 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 nations;
  • Dan 1:2 : 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasury of his god.
  • Zech 5:11 : 11 And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon its own base.
  • Isa 11:11 : 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, who are left, 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.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because the LORD confused the language of all the earth there, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated from each other.

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    1And the whole earth had one language and one speech.

  • Gen 11:3-9
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    3And they said to one another, Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and tar they had for mortar.

    4And they said, Come, let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.

    5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

    6And the LORD said, Behold, the people are one, and they all have one language; and this is what they begin to do: now nothing will be withheld from them which they have planned to do.

    7Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

    8So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.

    9Therefore its name is called Babel, because the LORD confused the language of all the earth there, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

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    11And he said to me, To build it a house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon its own base.

  • Gen 10:10-11
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    10And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

    11Out of that land went Asshur and built Nineveh, and the city of Rehoboth, and Calah,

  • Gen 14:1
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    1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of nations;

  • Gen 10:30
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    30And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go unto Sephar, a mountain of the east.

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    1And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

  • Gen 13:12
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    12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

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    31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and lived there.

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    19And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

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    6But a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

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    18Then Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelled in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the LORD.

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    1Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get yourself out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:

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    6When this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

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    6And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.