Genesis 11:2
Good News Translation
As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia 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.

Contemporary English Version
but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia,

New American Bible
When they were migrating from the east, they came to a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.

from the east.

Genesis 13:11 And Lot chose to himself the country about the Jordan, and he departed from the east: and they were separated one brother from the other.

Shinar.

Genesis 11:9 And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.

Genesis 10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.

Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel, king of Sennaar, and Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites, and Thadal, king of nations,

Isaiah 11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand the second time to possess the remnant of his people, which shall be left from the Assyrians, and from Egypt, and from Phetros, and from Ethiopia, and from Elam, and from Sennaar, and from Emath, and from the islands of the sea.

Daniel 1:2 And the Lord delivered into his hands Joakim, the king of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he carried them away into the land of Sennaar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he brought into the treasure house of his god.

Zechariah 5:11 And he said to me: That a house may be built for it in the land of Sennaar, and that it may be established, and set there upon its own basis.

Context
The Tower of Babel
1And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech. 2And when they removed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Sennaar, and dwelt in it.3And each one said to his neighbour: Come let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar:…
Cross References
Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Arach, and Achad, and Chalanne in the land of Sennaar.

Genesis 11:1
And the earth was of one tongue, and of the same speech.

Genesis 14:1
And it came to pass at that time, that Amraphel, king of Sennaar, and Arioch, king of Pontus, and Chodorlahomor, king of the Elamites, and Thadal, king of nations,

Daniel 1:2
And the Lord delivered into his hands Joakim, the king of Juda, and part of the vessels of the house of God: and he carried them away into the land of Sennaar, to the house of his god, and the vessels he brought into the treasure house of his god.

Zechariah 5:11
And he said to me: That a house may be built for it in the land of Sennaar, and that it may be established, and set there upon its own basis.

Genesis 11:1
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