Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.
WEB
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
YLT
and the ten brethren of Joseph go down to buy corn in Egypt,
DBT
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy [grain] out of Egypt.
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)