Genesis 29:7

And he said, Behold, the day is yet great, it is not time to gather the cattle; water the sheep, and go to the pasture.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And 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.

In Context

6And he said, Hath he peace? And they said, Peace; and, behold, Rahel his daughter cometh with the flock.

8And they said, We cannot till all the flocks are gathered, and we remove the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the flock.

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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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