From the east] RM 'in the east.' The writer is in Palestine. Shinar] S. Babylonia.
He rested on the seventh day] God ceased (as the word means) from His creative work.
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Genesis 11:2
2 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.