Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
And they say, `As a harlot doth he make our sister?'
DBT
And they said, Should people deal with our sister as with a harlot?
ASV
And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?
WEB
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
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)