Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel:
WEB
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalalel.
YLT
And Cainan liveth seventy years, and begetteth Mahalaleel.
DBT
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel.
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)