As they traveled east,† they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 11:2 in context
Genesis 11:1–5
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The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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As they traveled east,† they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
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They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
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They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”
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The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
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- LXX reads “from the east”.
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