Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
WEB
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”
YLT
For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'
DBT
If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold.
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)