Genesis 11:2 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
As they travelled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there.
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
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.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
BSB Berean Standard Bible
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
LSV Literal Standard Version
and it comes to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar and dwell there;
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Darby Darby Translation
And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
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.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
And as they went from the East, they found a plaine in the land of Shinar, and there they abode.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
As they journeyed in the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there.
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Senaar, and they dwelt there.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
And it came to pass as they moved from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;
FBV Free Bible Version
As they moved east they discovered a plain in the land of Shinar so they settled there.
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
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.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
Y aconteció que, como se partieron de oriente, hallaron una vega en la tierra de Shinar, y asentaron allí.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
Al salir hacia el oriente, encontraron una llanura en la región de Sinar, y se quedaron a vivir allí.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
Aconteció que al salir hacia el oriente, encontraron una llanura en la tierra de Sinar y se establecieron allí.
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Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
Al trasladarse hacia el oriente, descubrieron una llanura en la región del Sinar y se asentaron allí.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Al avanzar desde el oriente, la gente encontró una llanura en la tierra de Sinar y se estableció allí.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
Καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ κινῆσαι αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν, εὗρον πεδίον ἐν γῇ Σεναὰρ, καὶ κατῴκησαν ἐκεῖ.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
וַֽיְהִ֖י בְּנָסְעָ֣ם מִקֶּ֑דֶם וַֽיִּמְצְא֥וּ בִקְעָ֛ה בְּאֶ֥רֶץ שִׁנְעָ֖ר וַיֵּ֥שְׁבוּ שָֽׁם׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Cumque proficiscerentur de oriente, invenerunt campum in terra Sennaar, et habitaverunt in eo.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
И҆ бы́сть внегда̀ поитѝ и҆̀мъ ѿ востѡ́къ, ѡ҆брѣто́ша по́ле въ землѝ сеннаа́рстѣй и҆ всели́шасѧ та́мѡ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Двинувшись с востока, они нашли в земле Сеннаар равнину и поселились там.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Και ότε εκίνησαν από της ανατολής, εύρον πεδιάδα εν τη γη Σενναάρ· και κατώκησαν εκεί.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
А кад отидоше од истока, нађоше равницу у земљи сенарској, и населише се онде.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
A kad otidoše od istoka, nađoše ravnicu u zemlji senarskoj, i naseliše se onde.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
وَحَدَثَ فِي ٱرْتِحَالِهِمْ شَرْقًا أَنَّهُمْ وَجَدُوا بُقْعَةً فِي أَرْضِ شِنْعَارَ وَسَكَنُوا هُنَاكَ.
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT