Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
WEB
Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”
DBT
And Abimelech said to Abraham, What hast thou seen that thou hast done this?
YLT
Abimelech also saith unto Abraham, `What hast thou seen that thou hast done this thing?'
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)