Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
and the shower is on the earth forty days and forty nights.
ASV
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
WEB
And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
DBT
And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
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)