Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. New Living Translation As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there. English Standard Version And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Berean Standard Bible And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. King James Bible 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. New King James Version 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. New American Standard Bible And it came about, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. NASB 1995 It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. NASB 1977 And it came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Legacy Standard Bible And it happened as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Amplified Bible And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there. Christian Standard Bible As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. Holman Christian Standard Bible As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. American Standard Version And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. Contemporary English Version but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia, English Revised Version And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. GOD'S WORD® Translation As people moved toward the east, they found a plain in Shinar [Babylonia] and settled there. Good News Translation As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there. International Standard Version As people migrated westward, they came across a plain in the region of Shinar and settled there. Majority Standard Bible And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. NET Bible When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. New Heart English Bible It happened, as they traveled from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they settled there. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there; Young's Literal Translation and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there; Smith's Literal Translation And it shall be in their removing from the east they shall find a valley in the land of Shmar; and they shall dwell there. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it. Catholic Public Domain Version And when they were advancing from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt in it. New American Bible When they were migrating from the east, they came to a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. New Revised Standard Version And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd it came to pass, as men journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sinar; and they settled there. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And it was that when they picked up from the East, they found a valley in the land of Senar and they dwelt there. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. Brenton Septuagint Translation And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they dwelt there. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Tower of Babel1Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech. 2And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3And 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.… Cross References Genesis 10:8-10 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth. / He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.” / His kingdom began in Babylon, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Genesis 10:32 All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood. Genesis 13:11 So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company. Genesis 9:19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated. Genesis 10:25 Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan. Genesis 10:5 From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations. Genesis 10:18-20 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered, / and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. / These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations. Genesis 10:30 Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country. Genesis 12:1 Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you. Acts 17:26 From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands. Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going. Acts 2:9-11 Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, / Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome, / both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” Revelation 17:15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. Revelation 14:6 Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation and tribe and tongue and people. Treasury of Scripture And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelled there. from the east. Genesis 13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Shinar. Genesis 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Genesis 14:1 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; Jump to Previous Country Dwell Dwelt East Eastward Find Flat Found Journeyed Journeying Living-Place Moved Plain Settled Shinar Stretch Traveled Valley WanderingJump to Next Country Dwell Dwelt East Eastward Find Flat Found Journeyed Journeying Living-Place Moved Plain Settled Shinar Stretch Traveled Valley WanderingGenesis 11 1. One language in the world.2. The building of Babel. 5. It is interrupted by the confusion of tongues, and the builders dispersed. 10. The generations of Shem. 27. The generations of Terah, the father of Abram. 31. Terah, with Abram and Lot, move from Ur to Haran. And as people journeyed eastward The phrase "journeyed eastward" is significant in the biblical narrative. The Hebrew root for "journeyed" is "nasa," which means to pull up, set out, or depart. This suggests a deliberate movement or migration, indicating that humanity was in a state of transition. The direction "eastward" is often symbolic in Scripture. In Genesis, moving eastward can imply moving away from God's presence, as seen when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:24) and Cain went east of Eden (Genesis 4:16). This movement could symbolize humanity's continued drift from divine fellowship, seeking their own path apart from God's guidance. they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there From the east.--So all the versions. Mount Ararat was to the north-west of Shinar, and while so lofty a mountain could not have been the spot where the ark rested, yet neither could any portion of Armenia or of the Carduchian mountains be described as to the east of Babylonia. The Chaldean legends make the ark rest on Mount Nizir, or Elwend, on the east of Assyria; and though Ararat may possibly signify Aryaverta, "Holy Land," yet the transference of the name from Elwend to Armenia is not easily explicable. Moreover, the Bible elsewhere seems to point to Armenia as the cradle of the human race. Most modern commentators, therefore, translate eastward, and such certainly is the meaning of the word in Genesis 13:11, where also the versions, excepting our own, render from the east. Land of Shinar.--See on Genesis 10:10. The whole of Chaldea is a level plain, and the soil immensely rich, as it is an alluvial deposit, which still goes on forming at the head of the Persian Gulf, at the rate of a mile in a period estimated at from seventy to thirty years (Rawlinson, Anc. Mon., i. 4). A strip of land 130 miles in breadth has been added to the country, by the deposit of the earth washed down by the Tigris and Euphrates, since the time when Ur of the Chaldees was a great port. Verse 2. - And it came to pass, as they journeyed. Literally, in their journeyings. The root (גָקַע, to pull up, as, e.g., the stakes of a tent when a camp moves, Isaiah 33:20) suggests the idea of the migration of nomadic hordes (cf. Genesis 12:9; Genesis 33:17). From the east. Ab oriente (Ancient Versions, Calvin, et alii), meaning either that they started from Armenia, which was in the east respectu terrae Canaan (Luther), or from that portion of the Assyrian empire which was east of the Tigris, and called Orientalis, as distinguished from the Occidentalis on the west (Bochart); or that they first traveled westwards, following the direction of the Euphrates in one of its upper branches (Bush); or that, having roamed to the east of Shinar, they ultimately returned occidentem versus (Junius). The phrase, however, is admitted to be more correctly rendered ad orientem (Drusius, Lange, Keil, Murphy), as in Genesis 13:11. Kalisch interprets generally in oriente, agreeing with Luther that the migrations are viewed by the writer as taking place in the east; while T. Lewis prefers to read from one front part (the original meaning of kedem) to another - onwards. That they found a plain בִּקְעָה; not a valley between mountain ranges, as in Deuteronomy 8:7; Deuteronomy 11:11; Psalm 104:8, but a widely-extended plain (πεδίον, LXX.), like that in which Babylon was situated (Herod., lib. 1:178, κέεται ἐν πεδιῳ μεγάλῳ; cf. Strabo, lib. 2:109). In the land of Shinar. Babylonia (cf. Genesis 10:10). The derivation of the term is unknown (Gesenius), though it probably meant the land of the two rivers (Alford). Its absence from ancient monuments (Rawlinson) suggests that it was the Jewish name for Chaldaea. And they dwelt there.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Andוַֽיְהִ֖י (way·hî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be as people journeyed בְּנָסְעָ֣ם (bə·nā·sə·‘ām) Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 5265: To pull up, the tent-pins, start on a, journey eastward, מִקֶּ֑דֶם (miq·qe·ḏem) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6924: The front, of place, time they found וַֽיִּמְצְא֥וּ (way·yim·ṣə·’ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present a plain בִקְעָ֛ה (ḇiq·‘āh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 1237: A split, a wide level valley between mountains in the land בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (bə·’e·reṣ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct Strong's 776: Earth, land of Shinar שִׁנְעָ֖ר (šin·‘ār) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 8152: Shinar -- another name for Babylon and settled וַיֵּ֥שְׁבוּ (way·yê·šə·ḇū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry there. שָֽׁם׃ (šām) Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither Links Genesis 11:2 NIVGenesis 11:2 NLT Genesis 11:2 ESV Genesis 11:2 NASB Genesis 11:2 KJV Genesis 11:2 BibleApps.com Genesis 11:2 Biblia Paralela Genesis 11:2 Chinese Bible Genesis 11:2 French Bible Genesis 11:2 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 11:2 It happened as they traveled east that (Gen. 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