Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And Noah is a son of five hundred years, and Noah begetteth Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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)