And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
He struck all the firstborn of Egypt, the virility in the tents of Ham.
And He smiteth every first-born in Egypt, The first-fruit of the strong in tents of Ham.
And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.