Genesis 29:8

And 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.

Targum Onkelos

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

9While he spake with them, Rahel came, with the flock of her father; for she was a shepherdess.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:14And they said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man uncircumcised; for that (would be) a reproach to us.

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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