Genesis 29
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Genesis 29:2-10

2He looked, and 1saw 2a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, because they watered the flocks from that well. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large. 3When all the flocks were gathered there, they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.

4Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from 3Haran.” 5So he said to them, “Do you know Laban the 4son of Nahor?” And they said, “We know him.” 6And he said to them, “Is it well with him?” And they said, “It is well, and here is his daughter 5Rachel coming with the sheep.” 7Then he said, “Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered. Water the sheep, and go, pasture them.” 8But they said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, and the sheep of his mother’s brother Laban, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the flock of his mother’s brother Laban.

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 29:2 Lit behold ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 29:2 Gen 24:10, 11; Ex 2:15, 16 ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 29:4 Gen 28:10 ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 29:5 Gen 24:24, 29 ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 29:6 Ex 2:16 ↩

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