Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
WEB
And Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
YLT
And Joktan hath begotten Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
DBT
And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)