Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint:
WEB
One day, while Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the field and was famished.
YLT
And Jacob boileth pottage, and Esau cometh in from the field, and he is weary;
DBT
And Jacob had cooked a dish; and Esau came from the field, and he was faint.
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)