Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
WEB
And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
YLT
And Noah begetteth three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
DBT
And Noah begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
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)