Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThese are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs: the same is Edom.
All these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.
These are sons of Esau (who is Edom), and these their chiefs.
These are the sons of Esau, and these their chiefs: he is Edom.
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)