Numbers 28:18View Full Chapter

¹⁸ The first day will be a holy occasion. You will not do any job-related work.

Numbers 28:25View Full Chapter

²⁵ The seventh day will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work.

Numbers 28:26View Full Chapter

Festival of Weeks

²⁶ The day of the early produce, when you present your new grain offering to the Lord at your Festival of Weeks, will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work.

Numbers 29:1View Full Chapter

Blowing of the trumpet

29 The first day of the seventh month will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work. It will be for you a day of the trumpet’s sound.

Numbers 29:12View Full Chapter

Festival of Booths

¹² The fifteenth day of the seventh month will be a holy occasion for you. You will not do any job-related work. You will celebrate a festival to the Lord for seven days.

Numbers 29:35View Full Chapter

³⁵ On the eighth day you will have a holiday. You will not do any job-related work.

Joshua 11:1View Full Chapter

Victories in the north

11 King Jabin of Hazor heard about this. So he sent word to Madon’s King Jobab, to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph.

1 Chronicles 1:23View Full Chapter

1 Chronicles 1:44View Full Chapter

⁴⁴ When Bela died, Jobab, Zerah’s son from Bozrah, succeeded him.

1 Chronicles 1:45View Full Chapter

⁴⁵ When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites succeeded him.

Job 1View Full Chapter

Job’s piety and life of bliss

1 A man in the land of Uz was named Job. That man was honest, a person of absolute integrity; he feared God and avoided evil. 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.

Job’s motives questioned

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.”

⁸ The Lord said to the Adversary, “Have you thought about my servant Job; surely there is no one like him on earth, a man who is honest, who is of absolute integrity, who reveres God and avoids evil?”

⁹ The Adversary answered the Lord, “Does Job revere God for nothing? ¹⁰ Haven’t you fenced him in—his house and all he has—and blessed the work of his hands so that his possessions extend throughout the earth? ¹¹ But stretch out your hand and strike all he has. He will certainly curse you to your face.”

¹² The Lord said to the Adversary, “Look, all he has is within your power; only don’t stretch out your hand against him.” So the Adversary left the Lord’s presence.

Job passes the test

¹³ One day Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house. ¹⁴ A messenger came to Job and said: “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys were grazing nearby ¹⁵ when the Sabeans took them and killed the young men with swords. I alone escaped to tell you.”

¹⁶ While this messenger was speaking, another arrived and said: “A raging fire fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and devoured the young men. I alone escaped to tell you.”

¹⁷ While this messenger was speaking, another arrived and said: “Chaldeans set up three companies, raided the camels and took them, killing the young men with swords. I alone escaped to tell you.”

¹⁸ While this messenger was speaking, another arrived and said: “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house, ¹⁹ when a strong wind came from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It fell upon the young people, and they died. I alone escaped to tell you.”

²⁰ Job arose, tore his clothes, shaved his head, fell to the ground, and worshipped. ²¹ He said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb; naked I will return there. The Lord has given; the Lord has taken; bless the Lord’s name.” ²² In all this, Job didn’t sin or blame God.