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