And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dry.
WEB
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month, the earth was fully dry.
YLT
And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.
DBT
And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
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)