Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsand that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram--
and [that] Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram.
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)