We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationswe are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
We are twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’
we are twelve brethren, sons of our father, the one is not, and the young one is to-day with our father in the land of Canaan.
we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
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)