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660 B
660 B
He possessed seven thousand sheep
"He had 7,000 sheep" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
three thousand camels
"3,000 camels" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
five hundred yoke of oxen
"500 yoke of oxen." Each yoke would have been over two oxen, so there were five hundred pairs of oxen, which is a total of one thousand (1,000) oxen. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers)
the greatest
"the richest"
all the people of the East
The refers to places that were east of Canaan. Alternate translation: "all the people who live in lands that were east of Canaan" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit)