Job 1:3-5
Lexham English Bible
3 Then[a] his livestock came to be seven thousand sheep and goats and three thousand camels and five hundred pairs[b] of oxen and five hundred female donkeys, and he had very many slaves, and that man was greater than all the people of the east. 4 And his sons used to go and hold a feast at each other’s house[c] on his day, and they would send, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 Then when[d] the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send,[e] and he would sanctify them. Thus[f] he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of all of them, because Job thought,[g] “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed[h] God in their heart.” This is what Job used to do all the time.[i]
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- Job 1:3 Hebrew “And”
- Job 1:3 Hebrew “pair”
- Job 1:4 Literally “at the house of a man,” or “at the house of each”
- Job 1:5 Literally “And it would happen that,” or “And it would happen when”
- Job 1:5 Literally “and Job would send”
- Job 1:5 Hebrew “And”
- Job 1:5 Or “said”
- Job 1:5 Literally “blessed”— negative meaning by context
- Job 1:5 Or “always”; literally “all the days”
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