Genesis 30:43

30:43 In this way Jacob ¹  became extremely prosperous. He owned ²  large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

Genesis 31:9

31:9 In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

Genesis 31:16

31:16 Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

Deuteronomy 8:18

8:18 You must remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, ³  even as he has to this day.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ⁴  I am giving ⁵  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ⁶  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ⁷ 

Deuteronomy 25:2

25:2 Then, ⁸  if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, ⁹  the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves. ¹⁰ 

Job 1:3

1:3 His possessions ¹¹  included ¹²  7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. ¹³  Thus he ¹⁴  was the greatest of all the people in the east. ¹⁵ 

Job 42:12

42:12 So the Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

¹ tn Heb “the man”; Jacob’s name has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “and there were to him.”

³ tc Smr and Lucian add “Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” the standard way of rendering this almost stereotypical formula (cf. Deut 1:8; 6:10; 9:5, 27; 29:13; 30:20; 34:4). The MT’s harder reading presumptively argues for its originality, however.

⁴ tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

⁵ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

⁶ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

⁸ tn Heb “and it will be.”

⁹ tn Heb “if the evil one is a son of smiting.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “according to his wickedness, by number.”

¹¹ tn The word means “cattle, livestock, possessions” (see also Gen 26:14). Here it includes the livestock, but also the entire substance of his household.

¹² tn Or “amounted to,” “totaled.” The preterite of הָיָה (hayah, “to be”) is sometimes employed to introduce a total amount or an inventory (see Exod 1:5; Num 3:43).

¹³ tn The word עֲבֻדָּה (’avuddah, “service of household servants”) indicates that he had a very large body of servants, meaning a very large household.

¹⁴ tn Heb “and that man.”

¹⁵ tn The expression is literally “sons of the east.” The use of the genitive after “sons” in this construction may emphasize their nature (like “sons of belial”); it would refer to them as easterners (like “sons of the south” in contemporary American English). BDB 869 s.v. קֶדֶם says “dwellers in the east.”