Genesis 11:2

When the people ¹  moved eastward, ²  they found a plain in Shinar ³  and settled there.

As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

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

As the people migrated eastward, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there.

It so happened that as they moved out of the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled down.

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.

And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

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.

When the people ¹  moved eastward, ²  they found a plain in Shinar ³  and settled there.

¹ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Or perhaps “from the east” (NRSV) or “in the east.”

³ tn Heb “in the land of Shinar.”

sn Shinar is the region of Babylonia.