Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
WEB
But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
YLT
and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.
DBT
But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground.
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)