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Genesis 10:10

וַ תְּהִי רֵאשִׁית מַמְלַכְתֹּו בָּבֶל וְ אֶרֶךְ וְ אַכַּד וְ כַלְנֵה בְּ אֶרֶץ שִׁנְעָר
And she is becoming the shaking-one376 of his kingdom of Babel, and Long,377 and Accad,378 and Calneh,379 in the Earth of Two-Rivers.380
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Strong’s #8152: Shinar = ‘country of two rivers’. The two rivers being Phrat (Euphrates) and Hidekkel (Tigris). The Earth of Two-Rivers is the same place where the religious Tower of Babel is built, and where the house for the ephah carried by two women with stork wings (half black and half white) is built (Zech. 5).