But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
WEB
But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
YLT
and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.'
DBT
But if ye do not hearken to us, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and go away.
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)