And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.
WEB
They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
YLT
And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter is between them;
DBT
And they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them.
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)