Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died.
WEB
Of all that was on dry land, everything that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.
YLT
all in whose nostrils is breath of a living spirit--of all that is in the dry land--have died.
DBT
everything which had in its nostrils the breath of life, of all that was on the dry [land], 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)