And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsASV
and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:
WEB
And after he had become the father of Mahalalel, Kenan lived 840 years and had other sons and daughters.
YLT
And Cainan liveth after his begetting Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begetteth sons and daughters.
DBT
And Cainan lived after he had begotten Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begot sons and daughters.
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)