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.
Ver. 2. In the land of Shinar.] Which was a part of the garden of Eden, as most geographers think, fat and fruitful still above belief (Herodot. lib. i. cap. 93; Plin. lib. vi. cap. 26).