Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
WEB
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.
YLT
And Cush hath begotten Nimrod;
DBT
And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.
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)