And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.
and he causeth the camels to kneel at the outside of the city, at the well of water, at even-time, at the time of the coming out of the women who draw water.
And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water, at the time of the evening, when the women came out to draw [water].
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)