Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
These three were the sons of Noah: and of these was the whole earth overspread.
WEB
These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.
YLT
These three are sons of Noah, and from these hath all the earth been overspread.
DBT
These three are the sons of Noah; and from these was [the population of] the whole earth spread abroad.
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)