Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd Bilhah Rachel’s handmaid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
And Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant, conceiveth again, and beareth a second son to Jacob,
And Bilhah Rachel's maidservant again conceived, and bore Jacob a second son.
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)