Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsNow these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.
This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.
And these are births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot;
And these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.
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)