To seven, and also to eight. — Quite similar forms of expression occur in Job 5:19; Proverbs 30:21; Amos 1:3; Micah 5:4. The numbers seven and eight are used indefinitely in the advice to multiply our modes of exertion, ignorant as we are which may miscarry.
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Ecclesiastes 11:2
2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.