Job 1:4 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴ His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each on his day; and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ His sons used to go and feast in the house of each on his day (birthday) in turn, and they invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them. [Gen. 21:8; 40:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Common English Bible

⁴ Each of his sons hosted a feast in his own house on his birthday. They invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And his sons went and made a feast by houses, each one on his day. And sending, they called their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 1:4 Cross References

Job 1:3

He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.

Job 1:5

And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.

Psalm 133:1

Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!

Hebrews 13:1

Let brotherly love continue.