Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great:
and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.
and the man is great, and goeth on, going on and becoming great, till that he hath been very great,
And the man became great, and he became continually greater, until he was very great.
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)