Job 1:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he had seven sons and three daughters.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 42:13 : 13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.
  • Ps 127:3-5 : 3 See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward. 4 Like arrows in the hand of a man of war, are the children of the young. 5 Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.
  • Ps 128:3 : 3 Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.
  • Ps 107:38 : 38 He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.
  • Esth 5:11 : 11 And 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 13:13 : 13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 42:12-16
    5 verses
    87%

    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.

    13And he had seven sons and three daughters.

    14And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;

    15And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers.

    16And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

  • 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.

  • Job 1:3-5
    3 verses
    76%

    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.

    4His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.

    5And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.

  • Job 1:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

    14And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:

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    20And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

    21And Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah

    22And Ebal and Abimael and Sheba

    23And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

  • 1 Chr 8:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam.

    10And Jeuz and Shachia and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of families.

  • Gen 6:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

    2The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

  • 2Job made answer and said,

  • 29And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

  • 9He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.

  • 7His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.

  • 18And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,

  • 35The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel and Jeush and Jalam and Korah.

  • 16And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.

  • 2She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.

  • 27And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

  • 1 Chr 7:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    6The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.

    7And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five; heads of their families, great men of war; there were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four of them recorded by their families.

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    37The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.

    38And the sons of Seir: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan.

  • 26In the same way the second and the third, up to the seventh.

  • 4And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

  • 5All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

  • 43So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

  • 30Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

  • 10And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

  • 20And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.

  • 26And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

  • 11Jahath was the chief and Zizah the second; but Jeush and Beriah had only a small number of sons, so they were grouped together as one family.