Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.
ASV
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
WEB
So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
DBT
Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of 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)