Genesis 29:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

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  • Exod 2:17 : 17 And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.

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  • Gen 29:6-9
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    6 And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.

    7 Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.

    8 And they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep.

    9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

  • Gen 29:11-13
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    11 And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.

    12 And Rachel, hearing from Jacob that he was her father's relation and that he was the son of Rebekah, went running to give her father news of it.

    13 And Laban, hearing news of Jacob, his sister's son, came running, and took Jacob in his arms, and kissing him, made him come into his house. And Jacob gave him news of everything.

  • Gen 29:1-4
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    1 Then Jacob went on his journey till he came to the land of the children of the East.

    2 And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

    3 And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

    4 Then Jacob said to the herdmen, My brothers, where do you come from? And they said, From Haran.

  • Gen 24:29-30
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    29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he came out quickly to the man at the water-spring.

    30 And when he saw the nose-ring and the ornaments on his sister's hands, and when she gave him word of what the man had said to her, then he went out to the man who was waiting with the camels by the water-spring.

  • Gen 29:16-19
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    16 Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

    17 And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.

    18 And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.

    19 And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.

  • 4 And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.

  • Gen 29:28-29
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    28 And Jacob did so; and when the week was ended, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel for his wife.

    29 And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman.

  • Gen 24:14-16
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    14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

    15 And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.

    16 She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.

  • 2 But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Gen 31:18-19
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    18 And sending on before him all his cattle and his property which he had got together in Paddan-aram, he made ready to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

    19 Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

  • 25 Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.

  • 33 So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.

  • Gen 24:45-46
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    45 And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.

    46 And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

  • 38 And he put the banded sticks in the drinking-places where the flock came to get water; and they became with young when they came to the water.

  • 25 Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.

  • 5 So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

  • 43 Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,

  • 25 And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?

  • 12 And he said, See how all the he-goats are banded and marked and coloured: for I have seen what Laban has done to you.

  • 2 And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.

  • Gen 30:41-42
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    41 And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.

    42 But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

  • 4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

  • 23 And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.