Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
WEB
So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,
YLT
And Jacob taketh a stone, and lifteth it up for a standing pillar;
DBT
And Jacob took a stone, and set it up [for] a pillar.
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)