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What does Genesis 11:2 mean?
"As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there."
— Genesis 11:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
The whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
As they traveled from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
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.
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.”
Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
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