Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest toward Sephar, the mountain of the east.
WEB
Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
YLT
and their dwelling is from Mesha, in thy coming towards Sephar, a mount of the east.
DBT
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as one goes to Sephar, the eastern mountain.
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)