Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
WEB
The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
YLT
fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;
DBT
Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed; and the mountains were covered.
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)