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Job 42:13
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He also had seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Job also had seven sons and three daughters.
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
He had seven sons and three daughters.
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seue sonnes, & three daughters.
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
In addition to seven sons, Job had three daughters,
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
He also got seven sons and three daughters.
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
He was the father of seven sons and three daughters.
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
He had children also: vij. sonnes and iij. doughters.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seuen sonnes, and three daughters.
He had seuen sonnes also, and three daughters.
And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
And he hadde seuene sones [Note: the formere sones and douytris weren in the weye of saluacioun, and so not deed outirly. ], and thre douytris;
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
He had also seven sons, and three daughters.
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
He had seven sons and three daughters also.
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
And he came to have seven sons, and three daughters;
And he had seven sons, and three daughters.
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
And he hath seven sons and three daughters;
Let them praise the name of the LORD, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above earth and heaven.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 1:2, Psalms 107:41, Psalms 127:3, Isaiah 49:20
Reciprocal: Job 5:25 - thy seed Job 8:7 - thy beginning Job 18:19 - neither Job 29:5 - my children
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Then he went back to his brothers and lamented, "The boy is gone! What will I do now?"
When Jacob heard that grain was available in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why are you standing around looking at one another?
I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy enough grain to keep us alive. Otherwise we'll die."
So Jacob's sons arrived in Egypt along with others to buy food, for the famine was in Canaan as well.
Since Joseph was governor of all Egypt and in charge of selling grain to all the people, it was to him that his brothers came. When they arrived, they bowed before him with their faces to the ground.
Although Joseph recognized his brothers, they didn't recognize him.
We are all brothers—members of the same family. We are honest men, sir! We are not spies!"
One of you must go and get your brother. I'll keep the rest of you here in prison. Then we'll find out whether or not your story is true. By the life of Pharaoh, if it turns out that you don't have a younger brother, then I'll know you are spies."
Now he turned away from them and began to weep. When he regained his composure, he spoke to them again. Then he chose Simeon from among them and had him tied up right before their eyes.
So the brothers loaded their donkeys with the grain and headed for home.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He had also seven sons, and three daughters. The same number of children, and of the same sort he had before, Job 1:2; and according to Nachman the very same he had before, which the additional letter in the word "seven" is with him the notification of; so that the doubting of what he had before, Job 42:10; respects only his substance, and particularly his cattle; though the Targum says he had fourteen sons, and so Jarchi t; others think these may be said to be double to Job in their good qualities, external and internal, in their dispositions, virtues, and graces; and others, inasmuch as his former children were not lost, but lived with God, and would live for ever, they might now be said to be double; and so they consider this as a proof of the immortality of the soul, and of the resurrection of the body; but these senses are not to be trusted to; whether these children were by a former wife or another is uncertain.
t Vid. Balmes. Gram. Strat. 26.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He had also seven sons and three daughters - The same number which he had before his trials. Nothing is said of his wife, or whether these children were, or were not, by a second marriage. The last mention that is made of his wife is in Job 19:17, where he says that “his breath was strange to his wife, though he entreated her for the children’s sake of his own body.” The character of this woman does not appear to have been such as to have deserved further notice than the fact, that she contributed greatly to increase the calamities of her husband. It falls in with the design of the book to notice her only in this respect, and having done this, the sacred writer makes no further reference to her. The strong presumption is, that the second family of children was by a second marriage. See Prof. Lee on Job, p. 26. It would not, however, have fallen in with the usual manner in which “a wife” is mentioned in the Scriptures, to represent her removal as “in any circumstances” a felicitous event, and, as it could have been represented in no other light, if it had actually occurred, it is delicately passed over in silence. Even under all these circumstanccs - with a former wife who was impious and unfeeling; who served only to aggravate the woes of her holy and much afflicted husband; who saw him pass through his trials without sympathy and compassion - a second marriage is not mentioned as a desirable event, nor is it referred to as one of the grounds on which Job could felicitate himself on his return to prosperity. The children are mentioned; the whole reference to the second marriage relation, if it occurred, is delicately passed over. Under no circumstances would the sacred penman mention it as an event laying the ground for felicitation.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 42:13. Seven sons and three daughters. — This was the same number as before; and so the Vulgate, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic read: but the Chaldee doubles the sons, "And he had fourteen sons, and three daughters."
