Job 1:2

And he had seven sons and three daughters.

Bible in Basic English

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. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

3And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.

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Cross References

Esther 5:11And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.

Job 42:12And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Psalms 107:38He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

Psalms 128:3Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your 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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