◄ Job 1:4 ►
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Good News Translation
Job's sons used to take turns giving a feast, to which all the others would come, and they always invited their three sisters to join them.

New Revised Standard Version
His sons used to go and hold feasts in one another’s houses in turn; and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Contemporary English Version
Job's sons took turns having feasts in their homes, and they always invited their three sisters to join in the eating and drinking.

New American Bible
His sons used to take turns giving feasts, sending invitations to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his day. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink with them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his day. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink with them.

sent and called.

Psalm 133:1 A gradual canticle of David. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity:

Hebrews 13:1 Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.

Context
Job's Character and Wealth
…3And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east. 4And his sons went, and made a feast by houses, every one in his day. And sending, they called their three sisters, to eat and drink with them.5And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.…
Cross References
Job 1:3
And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.

Job 1:5
And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.

Job 1:3
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