Genesis 11:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 10:10 : 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
  • Gen 14:1 : 1 It happened 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 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.
  • Zech 5:11 : 11 He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."
  • Isa 11:11 : 11 It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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

  • Gen 11:3-9
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    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."

    5 Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

    6 Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.

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

    8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there on the surface of all the earth. They stopped building the city.

    9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

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    11 He said to me, "To build her a house in the land of Shinar. When it is prepared, she will be set there in her own place."

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

    11 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,

  • Gen 14:1
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    1 It happened 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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    30 Their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.

  • Gen 6:1
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    1 It happened, when men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them,

  • Gen 13:12
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    12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

  • Gen 11:31
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    31 Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan. They came to Haran and lived there.

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

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

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    18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

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    1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

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

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