Genesis 29:8

And they said, We cannot until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep.

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In The King James Version

And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

In Context

7And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together. Water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

9While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:14and said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a reproach to us.

Mark 16:3And they said to themselves, Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the sepulcher?

Matthew Henry on Genesis 29:2-9

Jacob's Arrival at Padan-aram. ( b. c. 1760.) 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth. 3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place. 4 And Jacob said… Read the whole commentary →

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