CHAPTER EXPLORER
Job 1
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22 verses in KJV · 306 outgoing cross-reference links
Opening verses of Job 1 (KJV)
1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
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Traditional writer attribution: Moses
Approximate study chronology: c. 1520 BC
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