Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
WEB
The Hittites replied to Abraham,
YLT
And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him,
DBT
And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
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)