Genesis 29:8

And they said, We cannot, until that all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll away the stone, from off the mouth of the well,—and then can we water the sheep.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 Lo! the day is yet high, it is not time for gathering together the cattle,—water the sheep, and go feed.

9While yet he was speaking with them, Rachel, had come in with the sheep which belonged to her father, for a shepherdess, was she.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:14and said unto them—We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man that is uncircumcised,—for a reproach, it would be to us.

Mark 16:3And they were saying one to another—Who, shall roll away for us the stone, out of the door of the tomb?

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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