Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add to me another son.
WEB
She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
YLT
and she calleth his name Joseph, saying, `Jehovah is adding to me another son.'
DBT
And she called his name Joseph; and said, Jehovah will add to me another 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)