And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
and Leah also draweth nigh, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterwards Joseph hath drawn nigh with Rachel, and they bow themselves.
And Leah also, with her children, drew near, and they bowed. And lastly Joseph drew near, and Rachel, 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)