Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsGive me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service wherewith I have served thee.
Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
give up my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and I go; for thou--thou hast known my service which I have served thee.'
Give [me] my wives for whom I have served thee, and my children; that I may go away, for thou knowest my service which I have served thee.
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)