These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Job 1
Tanakh 22 verses
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THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose was ; and that man was whole-hearted and upright, and one that feared , and shunned evil.
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And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
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His possessions also were 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 children of the east.
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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.
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And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all; for said: ‘It may be that my sons have sinned, and blasphemed in their hearts.’ Thus did continually.
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Genesis 8:20 Job 42:8 1 Samuel 16:5 1 Kings 21:13 1 Kings 21:10 Genesis 35:2-3 Job 27:10 Leviticus 24:10-16 Exodus 18:12 John 11:55 Acts 8:22 Job 1:11 1 Corinthians 4:5 Psalm 5:3 Exodus 19:10 Jeremiah 4:14 Ecclesiastes 9:10 1 Kings 18:31 Ephesians 6:18 Jeremiah 17:9-10 Nehemiah 12:30 Genesis 6:5 Leviticus 1:3-6 Job 2:9 2 Corinthians 11:2 Mark 7:21-23 Acts 21:26 Exodus 24:5 Luke 18:7 Job 8:4 Genesis 22:3 Luke 1:75 Job 41:25 - 6 Now it fell upon a day, that the sons of came to present themselves before , and came also among them.
- 7 And said unto : ‘Whence comest thou?’ Then answered , and said: ‘From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.’
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And said unto : ‘Hast thou considered My , that there is none like him in the earth, a whole-hearted and an upright man, one that feareth , and shunneth evil?’
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Then answered , and said: ‘Doth for nought?
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Hast not Thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions are increased in the land.
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Psalm 34:7 1 Peter 1:5 Zechariah 2:5 Job 31:25 Deuteronomy 28:2-6 Psalm 107:38 Proverbs 10:22 Genesis 49:25 Psalm 5:12 Deuteronomy 33:27 Genesis 26:12 Psalm 90:17 Genesis 30:43 Psalm 71:21 Psalm 128:1-4 Zechariah 2:8 Genesis 39:5 Job 1:3 Deuteronomy 33:11 Deuteronomy 7:13 Genesis 15:1 Isaiah 5:2 Job 42:12 Isaiah 5:5 Genesis 30:30 Job 29:6 Psalm 80:12 1 Samuel 25:16 - 11 But put forth Thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, surely he will blaspheme Thee to Thy .’
- 12 And said unto : ‘Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thy hand.’ So went forth from the presence of .
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And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house,
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that there came a messenger unto , and said: ‘The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;
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and the Sabeans made a raid, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.’
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- 16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: ‘A fire of is fallen from , and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.’
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While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said: ‘The Chaldeans set themselves in three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.’
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- 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;
- 19 And, behold, there came a great wind from across the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.’
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Then arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;
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And he said; Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, And naked shall I return thither; The gave, and hath taken away; Blessed be the of .
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For all this sinned not, nor ascribed aught unseemly to .
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