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Job 1:14

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that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,

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Job 1:14 in other translations

that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

Job 1:14 · American Standard Version

Job 1:14 in context

  1. 12Yahweh said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power. Only on himself don’t stretch out your hand.”
    So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh.
  2. 13It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
  3. 14that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
  4. 15and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
  5. 16While he was still speaking, there also came another, and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”