Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord:
But Lot replied, “No, my lords, please!
And Lot saith unto them, `Not so , I pray thee, my lord;
And Lot said to them, Not [so], I pray thee, Lord;
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)