Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
WEB
So Jacob’s sons did as he had charged them.
YLT
And his sons do to him so as he commanded them,
DBT
And his sons did to him according as he had commanded them;
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)