The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”
YLT
the purchase of the field and of the cave which is in it, is from Sons of Heth.'
ASV
the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.
DBT
The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth.
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)