And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
WEB
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
YLT
and God sendeth me before you, to place of you a remnant in the land, and to give life to you by a great escape;
DBT
SoGod sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
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)