Genesis 29:9

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

Targum Onkelos

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

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.

10And it was, when Jakob saw Rahel the daughter of Laban, the brother of his mother, and the flock of Laban the brother of his mother, that Jakob went near, and withdrew the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban, his mother’s brother.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:15And it was while he had not ceased to speak that, behold, Revekah came forth, (she) who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcha, wife of Nachor, brother of Abraham, and her pitcher upon her shoulder.

Exodus 2:16And the prince ( rabba) of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

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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