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Revised Standard Version

Job 42:13

He had also seven sons and three daughters.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Job;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Job;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blessedness;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Number;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
Hebrew Names Version
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
King James Version
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
English Standard Version
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
New Century Version
Job also had seven sons and three daughters.
New English Translation
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
Amplified Bible
He had seven sons and three daughters.
New American Standard Bible
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
World English Bible
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He had also seue sonnes, & three daughters.
Legacy Standard Bible
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
Berean Standard Bible
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
Contemporary English Version
In addition to seven sons, Job had three daughters,
Complete Jewish Bible
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
Darby Translation
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
Easy-to-Read Version
He also got seven sons and three daughters.
George Lamsa Translation
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
Good News Translation
He was the father of seven sons and three daughters.
Lexham English Bible
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
Literal Translation
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He had children also: vij. sonnes and iij. doughters.
American Standard Version
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Bible in Basic English
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
King James Version (1611)
He had also seuen sonnes, and three daughters.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He had seuen sonnes also, and three daughters.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
English Revised Version
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
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;
Update Bible Version
He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Webster's Bible Translation
He had also seven sons, and three daughters.
New King James Version
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
New Living Translation
He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters.
New Life Bible
He had seven sons and three daughters also.
New Revised Standard
He also had seven sons and three daughters.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he came to have seven sons, and three daughters;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he had seven sons, and three daughters.
Young's Literal Translation
And he hath seven sons and three daughters;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Let them praise the name of the LORD, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above earth and heaven.

Contextual Overview

10 And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house; and they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold. 12 And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters. 14 And he called the name of the first Jemi'mah; and the name of the second Kezi'ah; and the name of the third Ker'en-hap'puch. 15 And in all the land there were no women so fair as Job's daughters; and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers. 16 And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, four generations. 17 And Job died, an old man, and full of days.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 37:30
and returned to his brothers, and said, "The lad is gone; and I, where shall I go?"
Genesis 42:1
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
Genesis 42:2
And he said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down and buy grain for us there, that we may live, and not die."
Genesis 42:5
Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:6
Now Joseph was governor over the land; he it was who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 42:8
Thus Joseph knew his brothers, but they did not know him.
Genesis 42:11
We are all sons of one man, we are honest men, your servants are not spies."
Genesis 42:16
Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you remain in prison, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies."
Genesis 42:24
Then he turned away from them and wept; and he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.
Genesis 42:26
Then they loaded their asses with their grain, and departed.

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."


 
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