Genesis 11:2
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
In context
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.”
Genesis 11:2 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
- KJV 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
- ASV 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.
- YLT 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;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.
- WBS Webster 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.