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He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.(A)

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

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25 I chose what they should do and sat as chief,
    and I lived like a king among his troops,
    like one who comforts mourners.(A)

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25 I chose the way for them and sat as their chief;(A)
    I dwelt as a king(B) among his troops;
    I was like one who comforts mourners.(C)

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12 The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.(A)

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12 The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.

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For whenever the Israelites put in seed, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east would come up against them.(A)

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Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites(A) and other eastern peoples(B) invaded the country.

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30 so that Solomon’s wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.(A)

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30 Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East,(A) and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.(B)

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Then Balaam[a] uttered his oracle, saying,

“Balak has brought me from Aram,
    the king of Moab from the eastern mountains:
‘Come, curse Jacob for me.
    Come, denounce Israel!’(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 23.7 Heb he

Then Balaam(A) spoke his message:(B)

“Balak brought me from Aram,(C)
    the king of Moab from the eastern mountains.(D)
‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me;
    come, denounce Israel.’(E)

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22 The blessing of the Lord makes rich,
    and toil adds nothing to it.(A)

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22 The blessing of the Lord(A) brings wealth,(B)
    without painful toil for it.(C)

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16 And for her sake he dealt well with Abram, and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.(A)

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16 He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.(A)

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Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot and all the possessions that they had gathered and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran, and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,(A)

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He took his wife Sarai,(A) his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated(B) and the people(C) they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan,(D) and they arrived there.

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the nobles refrained from talking
    and laid their hands on their mouths;(A)
10 the voices of princes were hushed,
    and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.(B)

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the chief men refrained from speaking(A)
    and covered their mouths with their hands;(B)
10 the voices of the nobles were hushed,(C)
    and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.(D)

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Jacob Meets Rachel

29 Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.(A)

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Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram

29 Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.(A)

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and the land could not support both of them living together because their possessions were so great that they could not live together.

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But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.(A)

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29 He likewise provided cities for himself and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions.(A)

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29 He built villages and acquired great numbers of flocks and herds, for God had given him very great riches.(A)

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