Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.
WEB
Meanwhile, Shechem’s father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.
YLT
And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him;
DBT
And Hamor the father of Shechem came out to Jacob, to speak 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)