Bible verse
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 11.
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
2 And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
5 Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building.
6 And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
KJV
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
ASV
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
ERV
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
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