Genesis 29:9

While Jacob was still talking with the shepherds, Rachel came to the waterhole with her father's sheep. It was her job to look after them.

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In The King James Version

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.

In Context

8The shepherds said, “No. We do not give water to any of the sheep until all the sheep are here. When they are all here, we will roll the stone away from the waterhole and give water to them.”

10When Jacob saw Rachel with the sheep, he went to the waterhole and rolled the stone off the top. Then he gave water to the sheep belonged to Laban, Jacob's uncle.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:15The worker was still praying when Rebekah walked out of the town with a big billycan on her shoulder. Rebekah's father was named Bethuel and his parents were Milcah and Nahor. And Nahor was Abraham's brother.

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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