Job 1:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 His [a]substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and his family was very great, so that this man was the greatest of all the [b]men of [c]the East.
4 And his sons went and banqueted in their houses, every one his day, and sent, and called their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
5 And when the days of their banqueting were gone about, Job sent, and [d]sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and [e]offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought, It may be that my sons have sinned, and [f]blasphemed God in their hearts, thus did Job [g]every day.
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- Job 1:3 His children and riches are declared, to commend his virtue in his prosperity and his patience, and constancy, when God had taken them from him.
- Job 1:3 Hebrew, children.
- Job 1:3 Meaning, the Arabians, Chaldeans, Idumeans, etc.
- Job 1:5 That is, commanded them to be sanctified: meaning, that they should consider the faults that they had committed, and reconcile themselves for the same.
- Job 1:5 That is, he offered for every one of his children an offering of reconciliation, which declared his religion toward God, and the care that he had toward his children.
- Job 1:5 In Hebrew it is, and blessed God, which is sometimes taken for blaspheming and cursing, as here and 1 Kings 21:10, 13, etc.
- Job 1:5 While the feast lasted.
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