And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
WEB
“Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”
YLT
And Israel saith, `Why did ye evil to me, by declaring to the man that ye had yet a brother?'
DBT
And Israel said, Why did ye deal [so] ill with me [as] to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
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)