And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.
WEB
Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.
YLT
And Adah beareth Jabal, he hath been father of those inhabiting tents and purchased possessions;
DBT
And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of those who dwell in tents, and [breed] cattle.
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)