Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsNow therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
So if the boy is not with us when I return to your servant, and if my father, whose life is wrapped up in the boy’s life,
`And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),
And now, when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us, — seeing that his life is bound up with his life,
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)