Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.
WEB
to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
YLT
unto the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there doth Abram preach in the name of Jehovah.
DBT
to the place of the altar that he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.
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)