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It happened, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they lived there.
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A Strategic Settlement
Commentators explain that humanity migrated together to a fertile, flat plain in Shinar (ancient Babylonia). This resource-rich area was strategically chosen for a permanent settlement, setting the stage for their ambitious plan to build a city and tower instead of spreading across the earth.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
נסע nāsa‛ “pluck out, break up, journey.” מקדם mı̂qedem “eastward, or on the east side” as in ([Refere…
19th Century
Anglican
As they journeyed. —The word literally refers to the pulling up of the tent-pegs, and sets the human family before us as …
16th Century
Protestant
They found a plain in the land of Shinar. It can be inferred from these words that Moses speaks of Nimrod and of the people whom he had co…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east That is, the inhabitants of the whole earth; not Ham and his po…
How soon people forget the most tremendous judgments and go back to their former crimes! Though the desolations of the deluge were before their eye…
