Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
WEB
And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,
YLT
And Canaan hath begotten Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
DBT
— And Canaan begot Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth,
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)