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Job 1:13

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

KJV

Cum autem quadam die filii et filiæ ejus comederent et biberent vinum in domo fratris sui primogeniti,

Vulgate

καὶ ἦν ὡς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη, οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰὼβ καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες αὐτοῦ ἔπινον οἶνον ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτῶν τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου.

LXX

And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,

ASV

וַ/יְהִ֖י הַ/יּ֑וֹם וּ/בָנָ֨י/ו וּ/בְנֹתָ֤י/ו אֹֽכְלִים֙ וְ/שֹׁתִ֣ים יַ֔יִן בְּ/בֵ֖ית אֲחִי/הֶ֥ם הַ/בְּכֽוֹר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בְּכ֣וֹר
bkvr
noun · 118×
בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
בַּת
bt
noun · 585×
ו
v
noun · 629×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יָ֑יִן
yyn
noun · 139×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
ם
m
verb · 811×
שְׁתּ֖וֹת
shtvt
verb · 216×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Eccl 9:12 — For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly u
  • Job 1:4 — And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
  • Job 1:18 — While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
  • Job 15:21 — A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
  • Luke 12:19 — And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
  • Luke 17:27 — They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
  • Luke 21:34 — And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
  • Prov 27:1 — Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.