Job 1:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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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  • Job 29:25 : 25 I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...
  • Job 42:12 : 12 And 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.
  • Gen 12:16 : 16 And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.
  • Judg 6:3 : 3 And whenever Israel's grain was planted, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east came up against them;
  • Judg 6:5 : 5 For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.
  • Judg 7:12 : 12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.
  • Judg 8:10 : 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.
  • 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.
  • 1 Kgs 4:30 : 30 And Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
  • 2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.
  • 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 And he put up towers in the waste land and made places for storing water, for he had much cattle, in the low hills and in the table land; and he had farmers and vine-keepers in the mountains and in the fertile land, for he was a lover of farming.
  • 2 Chr 32:29 : 29 And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.
  • Job 29:9-9 : 9 The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths; 10 The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.
  • Gen 13:6 : 6 So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.
  • Gen 25:6 : 6 But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.
  • Gen 29:1 : 1 Then Jacob went on his journey till he came to the land of the children of the East.
  • Gen 34:23 : 23 Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.
  • Num 23:7 : 7 And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.
  • Num 31:32-34 : 32 Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep, 33 And seventy-two thousand oxen, 34 And sixty-one thousand asses;
  • Prov 10:22 : 22 The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
  • Gen 12:5 : 5 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 30:43
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    43So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

  • Job 1:2
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    2And he had seven sons and three daughters.

  • Gen 26:13-14
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    74%

    13And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;

    14For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

  • Gen 24:35-36
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    35The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

    36And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.

  • Gen 32:14-15
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    73%

    14Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred females and twenty males from the sheep,

    15Thirty camels with their young ones, forty cows, ten oxen, twenty asses, and ten young asses.

  • Job 42:12-13
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 25:2
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    2Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.

  • 2 Sam 12:2-3
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    72%

    2The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;

    3But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.

  • Gen 12:16
    71%

    16And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

  • Gen 36:6-7
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    71%

    6Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob.

    7For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

  • Gen 13:2
    71%

    2Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

  • Gen 30:30
    70%

    30For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?

  • 2 Chr 32:29
    68%

    29And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.

  • Eccl 2:7
    68%

    7I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

  • Gen 28:3
    68%

    3And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

  • Gen 31:9-10
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    68%

    9So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.

    10And at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a dream that all the he-goats which were joined with the she-goats were banded and marked and coloured.

  • Gen 24:10
    68%

    10And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.

  • Ezra 2:67
    68%

    67Four hundred and thirty-five camels, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.

  • 1 Chr 5:9
    68%

    9And to the east his limits went as far as the starting point of the waste land, ending at the river Euphrates, because their cattle were increased in number in the land of Gilead.

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    68%

    21And they took away their cattle: fifty thousand camels, two hundred and fifty thousand sheep, and two thousand asses, and a hundred thousand men.

  • Job 1:17
    68%

    17And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

  • 1 Kgs 4:23
    68%

    23Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.

  • Gen 45:23
    68%

    23And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

  • Job 1:4
    68%

    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.

  • Gen 13:5
    67%

    5And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;

  • Gen 31:18
    67%

    18And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

  • Num 31:44-45
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    67%

    44And thirty-six thousand oxen,

    45And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,

  • Num 31:33-34
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    33And seventy-two thousand oxen,

    34And sixty-one thousand asses;

  • Gen 24:32
    66%

    32Then the man came into the house, and Laban took their cords off the camels and gave them dry grass and food, and he gave to him and the men who were with him water for washing their feet.

  • Gen 4:20
    66%

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