Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
WEB
“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
YLT
and he saith unto them, `No, but the nakedness of the land ye have come to see;'
DBT
And he said to them, No; but to see the exposed places of the land are ye come.
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)