Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Zilpah Leah’s handmaid bare Jacob a second son.
WEB
When Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
YLT
And Zilpah, Leah's maid-servant, beareth a second son to Jacob,
DBT
And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a second 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)