Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsDBT
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food;
ASV
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
WEB
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.
YLT
if thou art sending our brother with us, we go down, and buy for thee 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)