Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
WEB
Now, therefore, Pharaoh should look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.
YLT
`And now, let Pharaoh provide a man, intelligent and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt;
DBT
And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
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)