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.
Job 1:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And his sons went and made a feast by houses, every one in his day. And sending they called their three sisters to eat and drink with them. |
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.
Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, ‘Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.’ This was Job’s regular practice.