Job 1:4-5
New Living Translation
4 Job’s sons would take turns preparing feasts in their homes, and they would also invite their three sisters to celebrate with them. 5 When these celebrations ended—sometimes after several days—Job would purify his children. He would get up early in the morning and offer a burnt offering for each of them. For Job said to himself, “Perhaps my children have sinned and have cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
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Job 1:4-5
Lexham English Bible
4 And his sons used to go and hold a feast at each other’s house[a] on his day, and they would send, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. 5 Then when[b] the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send,[c] and he would sanctify them. Thus[d] he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of all of them, because Job thought,[e] “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed[f] God in their heart.” This is what Job used to do all the time.[g]
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- Job 1:4 Literally “at the house of a man,” or “at the house of each”
- Job 1:5 Literally “And it would happen that,” or “And it would happen when”
- Job 1:5 Literally “and Job would send”
- Job 1:5 Hebrew “And”
- Job 1:5 Or “said”
- Job 1:5 Literally “blessed”— negative meaning by context
- Job 1:5 Or “always”; literally “all the days”
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