Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsand tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;
Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—
and thou hast dwelt with him some days, till thy brother's fury turn back,
and abide with him some days, until thy brother's fury turn away —
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)