Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
WEB
Thus God has taken away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
YLT
and God taketh away the substance of your father, and doth give to me.
DBT
AndGod has taken away the cattle of your father, and given [them] to me.
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)