Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
and said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
WEB
“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.
YLT
and say, `O, my lord, we really come down at the commencement to buy food;
DBT
and said, Ah! my lord, we came indeed down at the first to buy food.
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)