Genesis Chapter 26 verse 14 Holy Bible
And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household. And the Philistines envied him.
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For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.
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And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great number of servants; and the Philistines envied him.
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For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
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For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and very many servants: And the Philistines envied him.
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He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
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and he hath possession of a flock, and possession of a herd, and an abundant service; and the Philistines envy him,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - For he had (literally, there was to him) possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: - γεώργια πολλά (LXX.), i.e. much husbandry, the abstract being put for the concrete, "implying all manner of work and service belonging to a family, and so servants and tillage of all sorts" (Ainsworth); but the reference rather seems to be to the number of his household, or domestic slaves, plurimum familiae (Vulgate) - and the Philistines envied him. The patriarch's possessions (mikneh, from kanah, to acquire) excited jealous feeling (from root kana, to burn) in the breasts of his neighbors (cf. Ecclesiastes 4:4).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) Great store of servants.--Marg., husbandry. In Job 1:3 the word is rendered household in the text, and husbandry again in the margin. Literally it means making employment, and answers to our word business. But if in a man's life there is much activity and plenty to do, there must be people to do it, and profits made whereby to maintain them. And thus the translation, "great store of servants," gives the sense; but we see besides that Isaac kept them all actively employed,