Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 1:3

3. His Substance also was Seven Thousand Sheep, and Three Thousand Camels, and Five Hundred Yoke of Oxen, and Five Hundred She-Asses, and a very great Houshold; so that this man was the greatest of all the men in the East .

Camels in these parts were very numerous, as is manifest from Iudg. 7. 12. 1 Chron. 5. 21. and from the plain testimonies of Aristotle and Pliny, and very useful, and Proper both for carrying of Burdens in these hot and dry Countries, as being able to endure thirst much better than other Creatures, and for service in War.

Which were preferred before He-Asses, as serving for the same uses as they did, and for Breeding, and Milk also: But He-Asses also may be included in this Expression, which is of the Feminine Gender, because the greatest part of them (from which the denomination is usually taken) were She-Asses.

i. e. One of the richest.

To wit, that lived in those parts: such general Expressions being commonly understood with such limitations.

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