Job 1:2

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

In Context

1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and a very great household, so that this man was the greatest of all the sons of the east.

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Cross References

Esther 5:11And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.

Job 42:12So LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

Psalms 107:38He also blesses them, so that they are multiplied greatly, and he does not allow their cattle to decrease.

Psalms 128:3Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of thy house, thy sons like olive plants round about thy table.

Matthew Henry on Job 1:2-4

Job to Song of Solomon These five books of scripture which are contained in this third volume and which I have here endeavoured, according to the measure of the gift given to me, to explain and improve, for the use of those who desire to read them, not only with understanding, but to their edification—though they have the same divine origin, design, and authority, as those that went before, yet, upon some accounts, are of a very different nature from them, and from the rest of the sacred writings, such variety of… Read the whole commentary →

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