³ 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. ⁴ 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. ⁵ Then when^[d] the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send,^[e] and he would sanctify them. Thus^[f] he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of all of them, because Job thought,^[g] “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed^[h] God in their heart.” This is what Job used to do all the time.^[i]