Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these words.
WEB
When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.
YLT
And he overtaketh them, and speaketh unto them these words,
DBT
And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these words.
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)