Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
and the lean and ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
WEB
Then the thin, ugly cows devoured the seven well-fed cows that were there first.
YLT
`And the lean and the bad kine eat up the first seven fat kine,
DBT
And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;
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)