The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The man, the lord of the land, spake roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.
WEB
“The man who is lord of the land spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.
YLT
`The man, the lord of the land, hath spoken with us sharp things, and maketh us as spies of the land;
DBT
The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly to us, and treated us as spies of the land.
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)