Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
WEB
For twelve years they had been subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
YLT
twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they rebelled.
DBT
Twelve years had they served Chedorlaomer; and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
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)