Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
and all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
WEB
So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
YLT
And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth.
DBT
And all the days of Methushelah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years; and he died.
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)