Genesis 29:8

And they sayde: we may not vntyll all the flockes be brought together, and tyl they roule the stone from the welles mouth, and so we water our sheepe.

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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 sayde: loe [it is] yet a great whyle to nyght, neither is it tyme that the cattell should be gathered together: water ye the sheepe, and go and feede [them.]

9Whyle he yet talked with them, Rachel came with her fathers sheepe: for she kept them.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:14And they sayde vnto them: we can not do this thing, that we shoulde geue our sister to one that is vncircumcised, for that were an abomination vnto vs.

Mark 16:3And they sayde among them selues, who shall roule vs away the stone from the doore of the sepulchre?

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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