that I must go down<n id="1" /> and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests.<n id="2" /> If not,<n id="3" /> I want to know.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob&#8217;s sons.)<n id="1" />

Counting the two sons<n id="1" /> of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.<n id="2" />p>

All the people who were at the gate and the elders replied, &#8220;We are witnesses. May the <sc>Lordsc> make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel! May<n id="1" /> you prosper<n id="2" /> in Ephrathah and become famous<n id="3" /> in Bethlehem.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">What follows is a list of Israelite family leaders and commanders of units of a thousand and a hundred, as well as their officers who served the king in various matters. Each division was assigned to serve for one month during the year; each consisted of 24,000 men.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Job&#8217;s three friends heard about all this calamity that had happened to him, each of them came from his own country<n id="2" /> &#8211; Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.<n id="3" /> They met together<n id="4" /> to come to show sympathy<n id="5" /> for him and to console<n id="6" /> him.