Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecuted him:
WEB
The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.
YLT
And embitter him--yea, they have striven, Yea, hate him do archers;
DBT
The archers have provoked him, And shot at, and hated him;
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)