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    "title": "Job 1 — The bnei-elohim council and the first test",
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:1",
        "text": "A man there was in the land of Uz, Job by name; and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared Elohim and turned from evil."
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:2",
        "text": "Seven sons and three daughters were born to him."
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        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:3",
        "text": "His livestock numbered seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of cattle, and five hundred donkeys, with very many servants — and that man was greater than all the sons of the east."
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:4",
        "text": "His sons used to go and hold a feast in each one's house on his day; and they would send and call for their three sisters to eat and drink with them."
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        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:5",
        "text": "When the days of the feast had run their cycle, Job would send and consecrate them, rising early in the morning and offering whole burnt offerings according to the number of all of them — for Job said, \"Perhaps my children have sinned and have blessed Elohim in their hearts.\" Thus Job did all the days."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:6",
        "text": "The day came when the sons of the Elohim came to present themselves before YHWH — and the adversary also came among them."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:7",
        "text": "YHWH said to the adversary, \"From where do you come?\" And the adversary answered YHWH and said, \"From roaming the earth and walking back and forth on it.\""
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:8",
        "text": "YHWH said to the adversary, \"Have you set your heart on my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth — a man blameless and upright, one who fears Elohim and turns from evil.\""
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:9",
        "text": "The adversary answered YHWH and said, \"Does Job fear Elohim for nothing?\""
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        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:10",
        "text": "Have you not put a hedge around him and around his house and around all that is his on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has spread out in the land."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:11",
        "text": "But put out your hand and touch all that is his — and surely he will curse you to your face."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:12",
        "text": "YHWH said to the adversary, \"Behold, all that he has is in your hand — only against him do not put out your hand.\" And the adversary went out from before YHWH."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:13",
        "text": "The day came when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their oldest brother;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:14",
        "text": "A messenger came to Job and said, \"The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:15",
        "text": "when Sheba fell upon them and took them, and they struck down the young men with the edge of the sword. I alone have escaped to tell you.\""
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:16",
        "text": "While this one was still speaking, another came and said, \"Fire of Elohim fell from the skies and burned up the sheep and the young men and consumed them. I alone have escaped to tell you.\""
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:17",
        "text": "While this one was still speaking, another came and said, \"The Kasdim formed three columns and raided the camels and took them, and they struck down the young men with the edge of the sword. I alone have escaped to tell you.\""
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:18",
        "text": "While this one was still speaking, another came and said, \"Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in the house of their oldest brother,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:19",
        "text": "and behold, a great wind came from beyond the desert and struck the four corners of the house — and it fell on the young people, and they died. I alone have escaped to tell you.\""
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:20",
        "text": "Job arose, tore his robe, sheared his head, fell to the ground, and worshipped."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:21",
        "text": "And he said, \"Naked I came forth from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. YHWH gave, and YHWH has taken; may the name of YHWH be blessed.\""
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JOB-WOH-1:22",
        "text": "In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge Elohim with anything unseemly."
      }
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