JOB AND HIS FAMILY

1 There was a man in the country of Uza named Job.b He was a man of complete integrity,c who feared God and turned away from evil.d 2 He had seven sons and three daughters.e 3 His estate included seven thousand sheep and goats, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys,f and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.g

4 His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5 Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings forA all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts.”h This was Job’s regular practice.