Genesis 11:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:10 : 10 The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.
  • Gen 14:1 : 1 The Blessing of Victory for God’s People At that time Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations
  • Dan 1:2 : 2 Now the Lord delivered King Jehoiakim of Judah into his power, along with some of the vessels of the temple of God. He brought them to the land of Babylonia to the temple of his god and put the vessels in the treasury of his god.
  • Zech 5:11 : 11 He replied,“To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 At that time the Lord will again lift his hand to reclaim the remnant of his people from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the seacoasts.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.

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  • Gen 11:1
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    1The Dispersion of the Nations at Babel The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary.

  • Gen 11:3-9
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    3Then they said to one another,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”(They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)

    4Then they said,“Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

    5But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

    6And the LORD said,“If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.

    7Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.”

    8So the LORD scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

    9That is why its name was called Babel– because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth.

  • Zech 5:11
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    11He replied,“To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence.”

  • Gen 10:10-11
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    10The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.

    11From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

  • Gen 14:1
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    1The Blessing of Victory for God’s People At that time Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations

  • Gen 10:30
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    30Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern hills.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1God’s Grief over Humankind’s Wickedness When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

  • Gen 13:12
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    12Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

  • Gen 11:31
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    31Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot(the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

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    19Two sons were born to Eber: the first was named Peleg, for during his lifetime the earth was divided; his brother’s name was Joktan.

  • Gen 2:6
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    6Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

  • Gen 13:18
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    18So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the LORD there.

  • Gen 12:1
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    1The Obedience of Abram Now the LORD said to Abram,“Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

  • Acts 2:6
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    6When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

  • Gen 12:6
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    6Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem.(At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)