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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”

And there were seven sons and three daughters born to him;

and his possession was seven thousand of sheep, and three thousand of camels, and five hundred yokes of oxen, and five hundred of female asses (and five hundred female donkeys), and full much household; and this Job was a great man among all the men of the east.

And his sons went, and made feasts by their houses, each man in his day; and they sent, and called their three sisters, to eat, and to drink wine with them. (And his sons held feasts at their houses, each one in his turn; and they sent, and called their three sisters, to come and eat, and drink wine with them.)

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