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And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. 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. 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.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:3 Hebrew “And”
  2. Job 1:3 Hebrew “pair”
  3. Job 1:4 Literally “at the house of a man,” or “at the house of each”

He had seven sons(A) and three daughters,(B) and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys,(C) and had a large number of servants.(D) He was the greatest man(E) among all the people of the East.(F)

His sons used to hold feasts(G) in their homes on their birthdays, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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