And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd they made ready the present against Joseph’s coming at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.
Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.
and they prepare the present until the coming of Joseph at noon, for they have heard that there they do eat bread.
And they made ready the gift for Joseph's coming at noon; for they had heard that they should eat bread there.
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)