Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
WEB
Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
YLT
And the maid-servants draw nigh, they and their children, and bow themselves;
DBT
And the maidservants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed.
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)