Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
WEB
But we told him, ‘We are honest men, not spies.
YLT
and we say unto him, We are right men, we have not been spies,
DBT
And we said to him, We are honest; we are not spies:
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)