Bible verse

Genesis 11:2

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Genesis 11:2 · BSB

Genesis 11:2 in context

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.

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Genesis 11:2 in other translations

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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