Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.
So Lamech lived a total of 777 years, and then he died.
And all the days of Lamech are seven hundred and seventy and seven years, and he dieth.
And all the days of Lemech were seven hundred and seventy-seven 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)