Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:
WEB
When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
YLT
And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah.
DBT
And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
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)