Job 1:4

In 11 translations

BSB

Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

KJV

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.

WEB

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

ASV

And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

LSV

And his sons have gone and made a banquet—the house of each [in] his day—and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;

YLT

And his sons have gone and made a banquet — the house of each [in] his day — and have sent and called to their three sisters to eat and to drink with them;

DBY

And his sons went and made a feast in the house of each one on his day; and they sent and invited their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

DRC

And his sons went, and made a feast by houses every one in his day. And sending they called their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

GNV

And his sonnes went and banketted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent, and called their three sisters to eate and to drinke with them.

JPS

And his sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

LXXE

And his sons visiting one another prepared a banquet every day, taking with them also their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְהָלְכ֤וּ בָנָיו֙ וְעָשׂ֣וּ מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה בֵּ֖ית אִ֣ישׁ יוֹמ֑וֹ וְשָׁלְח֗וּ וְקָרְאוּ֙ לִשְׁלֹ֣שֶׁת אחיתיהם לֶאֱכֹ֥ל וְלִשְׁתּ֖וֹת עִמָּהֶֽם׃Read aloud as (qere): אַחְיֽוֹתֵיהֶ֔ם

LXX-Br

Συμπορευόμενοι δὲ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ πρὸς ἀλλήλους, ἐποιοῦσαν πότον καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, συμπαραλαμβάνοντες ἅμα καὶ τὰς τρεῖς ἀδελφὰς αὐτῶν, ἐσθίειν καὶ πίνειν μετʼ αὐτῶν.

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• Hebrews 13:1Continue in brotherly love.
• Psalms 133:1Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!

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