These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThese are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
These are births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;
These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,
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)