Job 1:3
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3 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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Job 29:25
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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)
Job 42:12
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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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Judges 6:3
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3 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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1 Kings 4:30
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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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Numbers 23:7
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7 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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Proverbs 10:22
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22 The blessing of the Lord makes rich,
and toil adds nothing to it.(A)
Genesis 12:16
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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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Genesis 12:5
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5 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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Job 29:9-10
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9 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)
Genesis 29:1
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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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Genesis 13:6
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6 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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2 Chronicles 32:29
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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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