Job 1:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Seven sons and three daughters were born to him; 3 and he had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very large household, so that he was greater than anyone in the East.[a] 4 His sons used to take turns giving feasts, sending invitations to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
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- 1:3 The East: that is, east of Palestine.
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