MANNAFEST

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

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ASV

Give 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.

WEB

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.”

YLT

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.'

DBT

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

GenesisThe 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)

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