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Berean Standard Bible

“One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,”

Job 1:13

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Job is described as blameless and upright, the greatest man of the East, after the heavenly scene in which Satan challenges his motives.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

World English Bible (WEB)

It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,

King James Version (KJV)

And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

American Standard Version (ASV)

And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother`s house,

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

And there was a day when his sons and daughters were feasting in the house of their oldest brother,

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

Y un día aconteció que sus hijos é hijas comían y bebían vino en casa de su hermano el primogénito,

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

El Señor replicó al ángel acusador: ―Tienes permiso para hacer con su riqueza lo que quieras; pero no lo perjudiques en su cuerpo. Entonces el ángel acusador se fue; y como era de esperarse, no mucho después, en un banquete que los hijos e hijas de Job tuvieron en casa del hermano mayor, ocurrió la tragedia.

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