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Genesis 29:8

Which answered, We may not till all the sheep be gathered together, and till we remove the stone from the mouth of the well, to water the flocks (or then we shall water the flocks).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 Jacob said, Yet much of the day is to come, and it is not (the) time that the flocks be led again to the folds; soothly give ye drink to the sheep, and so lead ye them again to meat, (or and so give drink to the sheep, and then take ye them back to the pasture).

9Yet (while) they spake, and lo! Rachel came with the sheep of her father.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:14We may not do this that ye ask, neither we may give our sister to a man uncircumcised, which thing is unleaveful and abominable with us. (and they said, We cannot do this thing that ye ask, for we cannot give our sister to an uncircumcised man, for such a thing is unlawful and abominable with us.)

Mark 16:3And they said together, Who shall move away to us the stone from the door of the sepulchre? [or Who shall turn away to us the stone from the door of the sepulchre?] (And as they arrived they said to each other, Who shall move away the stone from the door of the tomb for us? For the stone was very large and very heavy.)

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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