Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
WEB
So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
YLT
And turn back on that day doth Esau on his way to Seir;
DBT
And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
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)