Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah:
When Arphaxad was 35 years old, he became the father of Shelah.
And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.
And Arphaxad lived thirty-five years, and begot Shelah.
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)