Job 1:5

And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

In Context

4And 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.

6Now on a certain day when the sons of God came to stand before the Lord, Satan also was present among them.

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Cross References

Genesis 8:20And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.

Genesis 35:2And Jacob having called together all his household, said: Cast away the strange gods that are among you, and be cleansed and change your garments.

Exodus 19:10And he said to him: Go to the people, and sanctify them to day, and to morrow, and let them wash their garments.

Leviticus 1:3If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to him:

1 Samuel 16:5And he said: It is peaceable: I am come to offer sacrifice to the Lord, be ye sanctified, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Isai and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

1 Kings 21:10And suborn two men, sons of Belial against him, and let them bear false witness: that he hath blasphemed God and the king: and then carry him out, and stone him, and so let him die.

Matthew Henry on Job 1:5-6

Job's Solicitude for His Children. ( b. c. 1520.) 4 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. 5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. We have here a… Read the whole commentary →

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