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Job Chapter 1 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV Job 1:2

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
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BBE Job 1:2

And he had seven sons and three daughters.
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DARBY Job 1:2

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
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KJV Job 1:2

And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
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WBT Job 1:2

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
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WEB Job 1:2

There were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
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YLT Job 1:2

And there are borne to him seven sons and three daughters,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Seven sons and three daughters.--The like number was restored to him after his probation (Job 42:13).