Job 1:2
New International Version
He had seven sons and three daughters,

New Living Translation
He had seven sons and three daughters.

English Standard Version
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Berean Standard Bible
He had seven sons and three daughters,

King James Bible
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

New King James Version
And seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

New American Standard Bible
Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

NASB 1995
Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

NASB 1977
And seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

Legacy Standard Bible
Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

Amplified Bible
Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

Christian Standard Bible
He had seven sons and three daughters.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He had seven sons and three daughters.

American Standard Version
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

Contemporary English Version
Job had 7 sons and 3 daughters.

English Revised Version
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He had seven sons and three daughters.

Good News Translation
He had seven sons and three daughters,

International Standard Version
Seven sons and three daughters had been born to him.

Majority Standard Bible
He had seven sons and three daughters,

NET Bible
Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.

New Heart English Bible
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

World English Bible
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And seven sons and three daughters are borne to him,

Young's Literal Translation
And there are borne to him seven sons and three daughters,

Smith's Literal Translation
And seven sons and three daughters will be born to him.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And there had been born to him seven sons and three daughters.

New American Bible
Seven sons and three daughters were born to him;

New Revised Standard Version
There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And seven sons and three daughters were born unto him
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And he had seven sons and three daughters.

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Audio Bible



Context
Job's Character and Wealth
1There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil. 2 He had seven sons and three daughters, 3and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.…

Cross References
Genesis 30:1-2
When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob. / Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”

1 Samuel 1:8
“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

1 Chronicles 25:5
All these sons of Heman the king’s seer were given him through the promises of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

Psalm 127:3-5
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward. / Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth. / Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. He will not be put to shame when he confronts the enemies at the gate.

Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 46:27
And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

1 Samuel 2:5
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.

1 Chronicles 26:4-5
And Obed-edom also had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth, / Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, and Peullethai the eighth. For God had blessed Obed-edom.

2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

2 Kings 10:1
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:

Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Mark 10:29-30
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel / will fail to receive a hundredfold in the present age—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.

Luke 18:29-30
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God / will fail to receive many times more in this age—and in the age to come, eternal life.”

John 16:21
A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

Acts 2:39
This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”


Treasury of Scripture

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

seven sons.

Job 13:13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Esther 5:11
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Psalm 107:38
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

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Job 1
1. The holiness, riches, and reverent care of Job for his children.
6. Satan, appearing before God, obtains leave to afflict Job.
13. Understanding of the loss of his children and goods, in his mourning Job blesses God.














He had
This phrase introduces us to the patriarchal figure of Job, a man of great wealth and piety. The Hebrew root for "had" is "הָיָה" (hayah), which means "to be" or "to become." This suggests not only possession but also a state of being, indicating that Job's family was an integral part of his identity and existence. In the ancient Near Eastern context, a man's worth and legacy were often measured by his offspring, emphasizing the importance of family in Job's life.

seven sons
The number seven in the Bible often symbolizes completeness or perfection, derived from the Hebrew word "שֶׁבַע" (sheva). In the context of Job, having seven sons could imply a sense of divine blessing and completeness in his family life. Sons were particularly valued in ancient times for carrying on the family name and inheritance, and having seven would be seen as a sign of prosperity and divine favor.

and three daughters
The inclusion of daughters highlights the completeness of Job's family. The number three, from the Hebrew "שָׁלוֹשׁ" (shalosh), often signifies harmony and completeness. In a patriarchal society where sons were typically emphasized, the mention of daughters indicates their valued presence in Job's household. This balance of sons and daughters reflects the fullness of Job's blessings and the richness of his family life.

(2) Seven sons and three daughters.--The like number was restored to him after his probation (Job 42:13).

Verse 2. - And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters. The numbers three and seven, and their product, ten, are certainly sacred numbers, regarded as expressive of ideal perfection. But this does not prevent their being also historical. As Canon Cook observes, "Striking coincidences between outward facts and ideal numbers are not uncommon in the purely historical portions of Scripture" ('Speaker's Commentary,' vol. 4. p. 20). There are twelve apostles, seventy (7 × 10) disciples sent out by our Lord, seven deacons, three synoptic Gospels, twelve minor prophets, seven princes of Persia and Media, ten sons of Haman, three of Noah, Gomer, Terah, Levi, and Zeruiah, seven of Japhet, Mizraim, Seir the Horite, Gad, and Jesse (1 Chronicles 2:13-15), twelve of Ishmael, twelve of Jacob, etc. Our Lord is thirty (3 x 10) years old when he begins to teach, and his ministry lasts three years; he heals seven lepers, casts out of Mary Magdalene seven devils, speaks upon the cross seven "words," bids Peter forgive his brother "seventy times seven," etc. It is thus not only in vision or in prophecy, or in symbolical language, that these "ideal numbers" come to the front far more frequently than ethers, but also in the most matter-of-fact histories.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
He had seven
שִׁבְעָ֥ה (šiḇ·‘āh)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

sons
בָנִ֖ים (ḇā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and three
וְשָׁל֥וֹשׁ (wə·šā·lō·wōš)
Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

daughters,
בָּנֽוֹת׃ (bā·nō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter


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