Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.
WEB
If we had not delayed, we could have come and gone twice by now.”
YLT
for if we had not lingered, surely now we had returned these two times.'
DBT
For had we not lingered, we should now certainly have returned already twice.
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)