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Job 1:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

His estate included seven thousand sheep and goats, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys,  and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.

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I directed their course and presided as chief. I lived as a king among his troops, like one who comforts those who mourn.


So the Lord blessed the last part of Job’s life more than the first. He owned fourteen thousand sheep and goats, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys.


Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east  came and attacked them.


Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East,  greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.


Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak brought me from Aram; the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, put a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel! ’


The Lord’s blessing enriches, and he adds no painful effort to it.  ,


He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.


He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated, and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,


Jacob resumed his journey  and went to the eastern country.  ,


But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,


He made cities for himself, and he acquired vast numbers of flocks and herds, for God gave him abundant possessions.


Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills  and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells.  And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.


King Mesha of Moab  was a sheep breeder. He used to pay  the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool of one hundred thousand rams,


A man in Maon  had a business in Carmel;  he was a very rich man with three thousand sheep and one thousand goats and was shearing his sheep in Carmel.


For the Midianites came with their cattle and their tents like a great swarm of locusts.  They and their camels were without number, and they entered the land to lay waste to it.


Won’t their livestock, their possessions, and all their animals become ours? Only let’s agree with them, and they will live with us.’


But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, and while he was still alive he sent them eastwards, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.


Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and with them was their army of about fifteen thousand men, who were all those left of the entire army of the people of the east. Those who had been killed were one hundred and twenty thousand armed men.


Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.


Whenever David attacked the land, he did not leave a single person alive, either man or woman, but he took flocks, herds, donkeys, camels, and clothing.  Then he came back to Achish,


His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.


Haven’t you placed a hedge round  him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.


For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house? ’ and ‘Where are the tents  the wicked lived in? ’


if I have rejoiced because my wealth is great or because my own hand has acquired so much,


I would give him an account of all my steps; I would approach him like a prince.


After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and doubled his previous possessions.


About Kedar  and the kingdoms of Hazor, which King Nebuchadnezzar  of Babylon defeated, this is what the Lord says: Rise up, attack Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!


‘The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.


two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams,


The rich man had very large flocks and herds,


Then Menahem exacted 575 grams  of silver from each of the prominent men of Israel to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not stay there in the land.


Obil the Ishmaelite was in charge of the camels. Jehdeiah the Meronothite was in charge of the donkeys.





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