Job 1:2

And there were born unto him seven banim and shalosh banot.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1There was an ish in Eretz Utz, shmo Iyov; and that ish was blameless and yashar, and yire Elohim, and shunned evil.

3His possessions also were seven thousand tzon and three thousand gemalim, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-donkeys, and very many avadim; so that this ish was the greatest of kol bnei kedem.

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Cross References

Esther 5:11And Haman told them of the kavod of his osher, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein HaMelech had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the sarim (princes) and avadim of HaMelech.

Job 42:12So Hashem blessed the acharit (latter end) of Iyov more than his reshit; for he had fourteen thousand tzon, and six thousand gemalim, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

Psalms 107:38He made a brocha on them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; 1 and He doth not permit their behemah to decrease. 1

Psalms 128:3Thy isha shall be as a fruitful gefen 1 inside thine bais; 1 thy banim like olive shoots 1 around thy shulchan. 1

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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