Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
WEB
Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.
YLT
And the whole earth is of one pronunciation, and of the same words,
DBT
And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.
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)