Genesis 11:2

Verse 2 of 32. The 11th of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.

1And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

5And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

6And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

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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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Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:2

They found a very convenient commodious place to settle in (v. 2), a plain in the land of Shinar, a spacious plain, able to contain them all, and a fruitful plain, able, according as their present numbers were, to support them all, though perhaps they had not considered what room there would be for them when their numbers should be increased.

Read Matthew Henry on Genesis 11:1–4: The Confusion of Tongues. (b. c. 2247.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.