Job 1:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.

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  • Job 29:25 : 25 I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.
  • Job 42:12 : 12 So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
  • Gen 12:16 : 16 and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
  • Judg 6:3 : 3 Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.
  • Judg 6:5 : 5 When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.
  • Judg 7:12 : 12 Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.
  • Judg 8:10 : 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.
  • 1 Sam 25:2 : 2 David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
  • 1 Kgs 4:30 : 30 Solomon was wiser than all the men of the east and all the sages of Egypt.
  • 2 Kgs 3:4 : 4 Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder. He would send as tribute to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.
  • 2 Chr 26:10 : 10 He built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the foothills and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, for he loved agriculture.
  • 2 Chr 32:29 : 29 He built royal cities and owned a large number of sheep and cattle, for God gave him a huge amount of possessions.
  • Job 29:9-9 : 9 the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands; 10 the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
  • Gen 13:6 : 6 But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.
  • Gen 25:6 : 6 But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.
  • Gen 29:1 : 1 The Marriages of Jacob So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.
  • Gen 34:23 : 23 If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”
  • Num 23:7 : 7 Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying,“Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,‘Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’
  • Num 31:32-34 : 32 The spoil that remained of the plunder which the fighting men had gathered was 675,000 sheep, 33 72,000 cattle, 34 61,000 donkeys,
  • Prov 10:22 : 22 The blessing from the LORD makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.
  • Gen 12:5 : 5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 30:43
    79%

    43In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

  • Job 1:2
    76%

    2Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

  • Gen 26:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.

    14He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

  • Gen 24:35-36
    2 verses
    74%

    35“The LORD has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

    36My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.

  • Gen 32:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

    15thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys.

  • Job 42:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12So the LORD blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

    13And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

  • 1 Sam 25:2
    73%

    2David Marries Abigail the Widow of Nabal There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. This man was very wealthy; he owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At that time he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

  • 2 Sam 12:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2The rich man had a great many flocks and herds.

    3But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. It used to eat his food, drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. It was just like a daughter to him.

  • Gen 12:16
    71%

    16and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

  • Gen 36:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from Jacob his brother

    7because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

  • Gen 13:2
    71%

    2(Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)

  • Gen 30:30
    70%

    30Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”

  • 2 Chr 32:29
    68%

    29He built royal cities and owned a large number of sheep and cattle, for God gave him a huge amount of possessions.

  • Eccl 2:7
    68%

    7I purchased male and female slaves, and I owned slaves who were born in my house; I also possessed more livestock– both herds and flocks– than any of my predecessors in Jerusalem.

  • Gen 28:3
    68%

    3May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

  • Gen 31:9-10
    2 verses
    68%

    9In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

    10“Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

  • Gen 24:10
    68%

    10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.

  • Ezra 2:67
    68%

    67435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.

  • 1 Chr 5:9
    68%

    9In the east they settled as far as the entrance to the wilderness that stretches to the Euphrates River, for their cattle had increased in numbers in the land of Gilead.

  • 1 Chr 5:21
    68%

    21They seized the Hagrites’ animals, including 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took captive 100,000 people.

  • Job 1:17
    68%

    17While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said,“The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I– only I alone– escaped to tell you!”

  • 1 Kgs 4:23
    68%

    23ten calves fattened in the stall, twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

  • Gen 45:23
    68%

    23To his father he sent the following: ten donkeys loaded with the best products of Egypt and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, food, and provisions for his father’s journey.

  • Job 1:4
    68%

    4Now his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one in turn, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

  • Gen 13:5
    67%

    5Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

  • Gen 31:18
    67%

    18He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

  • Num 31:44-45
    2 verses
    67%

    4436,000 cattle,

    4530,500 donkeys,

  • Num 31:33-34
    2 verses
    67%

    3372,000 cattle,

    3461,000 donkeys,

  • Gen 24:32
    66%

    32So Abraham’s servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.

  • Gen 4:20
    66%

    20Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.