Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make him a great nation.
WEB
Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
YLT
rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with thy hand, for for a great nation I set him.'
DBT
Arise, take the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make of him a great nation.
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)