Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
and saith, `Thou art he--my son Esau?' and he saith, `I am .'
And he said, Art thou really my son Esau? And he said, It is I.
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)