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|Jó 1:1| There was once a man in the land of Uz called Job: a sound and honest man who feared God and shunned evil.
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|Jó 1:2| Seven sons and three daughters were born to him.
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|Jó 1:3| And he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred she-donkeys, and many servants besides. This man was the most prosperous of all the Sons of the East.
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|Jó 1:4| It was the custom of his sons to hold banquets in one another's houses in turn, and to invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
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|Jó 1:5| Once each series of banquets was over, Job would send for them to come and be purified, and at dawn on the following day he would make a burnt offering for each of them. 'Perhaps', Job would say, 'my sons have sinned and in their heart blasphemed.' So that was what Job used to do each time.
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|Jó 1:6| One day when the sons of God came to attend on Yahweh, among them came Satan.
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|Jó 1:7| So Yahweh said to Satan, 'Where have you been?' 'Prowling about on earth,' he answered, 'roaming around there.'
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|Jó 1:8| So Yahweh asked him, 'Did you pay any attention to my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth: a sound and honest man who fears God and shuns evil.'
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|Jó 1:9| 'Yes,' Satan said, 'but Job is not God-fearing for nothing, is he?
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|Jó 1:10| Have you not put a wall round him and his house and all his domain? You have blessed all he undertakes, and his flocks throng the countryside.
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