Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.
WEB
So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”
YLT
and they say, `Let us call for the young person, and ask at her mouth;'
DBT
And they said, Let us call the maiden and inquire at her mouth.
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)