Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Shelah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:
WEB
When Shelah was 30 years old, he became the father of Eber.
YLT
And Salah hath lived thirty years, and begetteth Eber.
DBT
And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
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)