Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
WEB
Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’
YLT
`And I say unto my lord, It may be the woman doth not come after me;
DBT
And I said to my master, Perhaps the woman will not follow me?
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)