Genesis 29:9
While he was yet speaking to them, behold, Rachel the daughter of Laban came with her father’s sheep, for she fed the sheep of her father.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
Cross References
Genesis 24:15And it came to pass before he had done speaking in his mind, that behold, Rebekah the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, and the same the brother of Abraham, came forth, having a waterpot on her shoulders.
Exodus 2:16And the priest of Midian had seven daughters, feeding the flock of their father Jethro; and they came and drew water until they filled their pitchers, to water the flock of their father Jethro.
Song of Solomon 1:7Tell me, thou whom my soul loves, 1 Where thou tendest thy flock, where thou causest them to rest at noon, 1 Lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of thy companions. 1
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 →