Job 1:2

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 Hus, whose name was Job, and that man was simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil.

3And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceeding great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

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Cross References

Esther 5:11And he declared to them the greatness of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and with how great glory the king had advanced him above all his princes and servants.

Job 42:12And the 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 asses.

Psalms 107:38And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly: and their cattle he suffered not to decrease.

Psalms 128:3behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.

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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