And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer–sheba unto this day.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
WEB
So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
YLT
and he calleth it Shebah, oath, therefore the name of the city is Beer-Sheba, well of the oath, unto this day.
DBT
And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.
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)