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Verse 13

"He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third Karen-happuch. And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren."

The stress of Job's daughters here is significant; and we find in it a type of the marvelous endowment that came to women through the gospel of Christ. That these three daughters should have been mentioned by name, distinguishing them from the seven sons who were not named, and that their inheritance should have been absolutely upon a parity with their brethren (both of these facts being absolutely contrary to all of the customs and sentiments of the age in which Job lived) - these things are doubtless typical of the loving equality and glory that the Jesus Christ has brought to women.

"Jemimah, ... Keziah, ... Keren-happuch" (Job 42:14). James Moffatt's Translation of the Bible (1929) translated these names as "Ringdove, Cassia, and Apple-scent." Van Selms read them as, "Turtledove, Cinnamon, and Jar of Eye-shadow."[16] "The literal meaning of Karen-happuch is "Born of Stibium, the same being a kind of dye with which Oriental women, from the remotest antiquity, have anointed the upper and lower eyelids in order to enhance the beauty of the eyes and to give them additional luster."[17]

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