Parallel Verses

Amplified

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

New American Standard Bible

It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

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.

Holman Bible

As people migrated from the east, they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

International Standard Version

As people migrated westward, they came across a plain in the region of Shinar and settled there.

A Conservative Version

And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt 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.

Bible in Basic English

And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

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.

Julia Smith 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.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And as people migrated from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Modern King James verseion

And it happened, as they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar. And they lived there.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And as they came from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and there they dwelled.

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 lived there.

The Emphasized Bible

And it came to pass as they brake away onwards, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.

Webster

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

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

Youngs 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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And it came to pass, as they journeyed
נסע 
Naca` 
Usage: 146

from the east
קדמה קדם 
Qedem 
Usage: 87

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

a plain
בּקעה 
Biq`ah 
Usage: 20

in the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

of Shinar
שׁנער 
Shin`ar 
Usage: 8

and they dwelt
ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

Context Readings

The Tower Of Babylon

1 Now the whole earth spoke one language and used the same words (vocabulary). 2 And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there. 3 They said one to another, “Come, let us make bricks and fire them thoroughly [in a kiln, to harden and strengthen them].” So they used brick for stone [as building material], and they used tar (bitumen, asphalt) for mortar.


Cross References

Genesis 10:10

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].

Genesis 14:1

In the days of the [Eastern] kings Amraphel of Shinar, Arioch of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer of Elam, and Tidal of Goiim,

Daniel 1:2

The Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles of the house of God; and he brought them into the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and brought the articles into the treasury of his god.

Isaiah 11:11


Then it will happen on that day that the Lord
Will again acquire with His hand a second time
The remnant of His people, who will remain,
From Assyria, from [Lower] Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush (Ethiopia), from Elam [in Persia], from Shinar [Babylonia], from Hamath [in Aram],
And from the coastlands bordering the [Mediterranean] Sea.

Zechariah 5:11

And he said to me, “To the land of Shinar (Babylon) to build a temple for her; and when it is prepared, she shall be set there on her own pedestal.”

Genesis 11:9

Therefore the name of the city was Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the entire earth; and from that place the Lord scattered and dispersed them over the surface of all the earth.

Genesis 13:11

Then Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and he traveled east. So they separated from each other.

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