Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death.
“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
And he saith, `Lo, I pray thee, I have become aged, I have not known the day of my death;
And he said, Behold now, I am become old; I know not the day of my death.
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)