Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
WEB
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
YLT
and Noah is a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.
DBT
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was on the earth.
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)