But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
but thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.
WEB
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
YLT
If not--unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.
DBT
but thou shalt by all means go to my father's house and to my family, and take a wife for my son.
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)