Job 1:3
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3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the [a]people of the East.
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- Job 1:3 Lit. sons
Job 29:25
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25 I chose the way for them, and sat as chief;
So I dwelt as a king in the army,
As one who comforts mourners.
Job 42:12
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12 Now the Lord blessed (A)the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had (B)fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.
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Judges 6:3
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3 So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the (A)people of the East would come up against them.
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1 Kings 4:30
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30 Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men (A)of the East and all (B)the wisdom of Egypt.
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Numbers 23:7
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7 And he (A)took up his [a]oracle and said:
“Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram,
From the mountains of the east.
(B)‘Come, curse Jacob for me,
And come, (C)denounce Israel!’
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- Numbers 23:7 prophetic discourse
Proverbs 10:22
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22 (A)The blessing of the Lord makes one rich,
And He adds no sorrow with it.
Genesis 12:16
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16 He (A)treated Abram well for her sake. He (B)had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
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Genesis 12:5
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5 Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and (A)the [a]people whom they had acquired (B)in Haran, and they (C)departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.
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- Genesis 12:5 Lit. souls
Job 29:9-10
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9 The princes refrained from talking,
And (A)put their hand on their mouth;
10 The voice of nobles was hushed,
And their (B)tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
Genesis 29:1
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Jacob Meets Rachel
29 So Jacob went on his journey (A)and came to the land of the people of the East.
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Genesis 13:6
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6 Now (A)the land was not able to [a]support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together.
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- Genesis 13:6 Lit. bear
2 Chronicles 32:29
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29 Moreover he provided cities for himself, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for (A)God had given him very much property.
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2 Chronicles 26:10
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10 Also he built towers in the desert. He dug many wells, for he had much livestock, both in the lowlands and in the plains; he also had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in [a]Carmel, for he loved the soil.
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- 2 Chronicles 26:10 Or the fertile fields
2 Kings 3:4
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4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheepbreeder, and he (A)regularly paid the king of Israel one hundred thousand (B)lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams.
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1 Samuel 25:2
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David and the Wife of Nabal
2 Now there was a man (A)in Maon whose business was in (B)Carmel, and the man was very rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
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Judges 6:5
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5 For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, coming in as numerous as locusts; both they and their camels were [a]without number; and they would enter the land to destroy it.
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- Judges 6:5 innumerable
Numbers 31:32-34
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32 The booty remaining from the plunder, which the men of war had taken, was six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 seventy-two thousand cattle, 34 sixty-one thousand donkeys,
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Genesis 34:23
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23 Will not their livestock, their property, and every animal of theirs be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”
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Genesis 25:6
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6 But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he (A)sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to (B)the country of the east.
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Judges 8:10
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10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were at Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand, all who were left of (A)all the army of the people of the East; for (B)one hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword had fallen.
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Judges 7:12
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12 Now the Midianites and Amalekites, (A)all the people of the East, were lying in the valley (B)as numerous as locusts; and their camels were [a]without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.
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- Judges 7:12 innumerable
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