2. He had seven sons and three daughters,
3. and owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred pairs of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a vast number of servants, so that he was greater than all the people of the east.
4. Each of his sons hosted a feast in his own house on his birthday. They invited their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
5. When the days of the feast had been completed, Job would send word and purify his children. Getting up early in the morning, he prepared entirely burned offerings for each one of them, for Job thought, Perhaps my children have sinned and then cursed God in their hearts. Job did this regularly.
6. One day the divine beings came to present themselves before the Lord, and the Adversary also came among them.
7. The Lord said to the Adversary, "Where did you come from?"The Adversary answered the Lord, "From wandering throughout the earth."