And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsASV
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
WEB
And after he had become the father of Noah, Lamech lived 595 years and had other sons and daughters.
YLT
And Lamech liveth after his begetting Noah five hundred and ninety and five years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
DBT
And Lemech lived after he had begotten Noah five hundred and ninety-five years, and begot sons and daughters.
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)