Job 42:8 — So I want you to go over to Job and offer seven bulls and seven goats on an alt… — CEV | maBible
Read Job 42:8 (Contemporary English Version) on maBible, the Bible online. Other reference formats: Job 42.8, Job 42v8, Jb. 42:8. So I want you to go over to Job and offer seven bulls and seven goats on an altar as a sacrifice to please me. After this, Job will pray, and I will agree not to punish…
Other reference formats: Job 42.8, Job 42v8, Jb. 42:8.
8 So I want you to go over to Job and offer seven bulls and seven goats on an altar as a sacrifice to please me. After this, Job will pray, and I will agree not to punish you for your foolishness.
Notes and references
sacrifice to please me: These sacrifices have traditionally been called “whole burnt offerings” because the whole animal was burned on the altar. A main purpose of such sacrifices was to please the Lord with the smell of the sacrifice, and so in the CEV they are often called “sacrifices to please t…