Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
and saith, `Let us journey and go on, and I go on before thee.'
ASV
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
WEB
Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”
DBT
And he said, Let us take our journey, and go on, and I will go before thee.
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)