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As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia[a] and settled there.

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  1. 11:2 Hebrew Shinar.

10 He built his kingdom in the land of Babylonia,[a] with the cities of Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh.

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  1. 10:10 Hebrew Shinar.

The Lord gave him victory over King Jehoiakim of Judah and permitted him to take some of the sacred objects from the Temple of God. So Nebuchadnezzar took them back to the land of Babylonia[a] and placed them in the treasure-house of his god.

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  1. 1:2 Hebrew the land of Shinar.

Abram Rescues Lot

14 About this time war broke out in the region. King Amraphel of Babylonia,[a] King Arioch of Ellasar, King Kedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim

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  1. 14:1 Hebrew Shinar; also in 14:9.

11 He replied, “To the land of Babylonia,[a] where they will build a temple for the basket. And when the temple is ready, they will set the basket there on its pedestal.”

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  1. 5:11 Hebrew the land of Shinar.

11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time
    to bring back the remnant of his people—
those who remain in Assyria and northern Egypt;
    in southern Egypt, Ethiopia,[a] and Elam;
    in Babylonia,[b] Hamath, and all the distant coastlands.

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  1. 11:11a Hebrew in Pathros, Cush.
  2. 11:11b Hebrew in Shinar.

11 Lot chose for himself the whole Jordan Valley to the east of them. He went there with his flocks and servants and parted company with his uncle Abram.

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That is why the city was called Babel,[a] because that is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.

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  1. 11:9 Or Babylon. Babel sounds like a Hebrew term that means “confusion.”

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