Genesis 29:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Gal 6:9-9 : 9 And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness. 10 So then, as we have the chance, let us do good to all men, and specially to those who are of the family of the faith.
  • Eph 5:16 : 16 Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.

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  • Gen 29:8-10
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    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.

    10 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.

  • Gen 29:6
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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.

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    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.

  • Gen 33:13
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    13 But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

  • Prov 27:23
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    23 Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

  • Gen 37:12-16
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    12 Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

    13 And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

    14 And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

    15 And a man saw him wandering in the country, and said to him, What are you looking for?

    16 And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock.

  • Ezek 34:6-7
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    6 And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.

    7 For this cause, O keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord:

  • Exod 2:16-19
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    16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.

    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.

    18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you have come back so quickly today?

    19 And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the keepers of sheep and got water for us and gave it to the flock.

  • Gen 30:31-32
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    31 And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:

    32 Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.

  • Mic 7:14
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    14 Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
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    16 But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.

  • Gen 31:4
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    4 And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.

  • Gen 46:32
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    32 And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.

  • Gen 30:42
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 25:7
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    7 I have had word that you have wool-cutters: now the keepers of your sheep have been with us, and we have done them no evil, and taken nothing of theirs while they were in Carmel.

  • Zech 11:4
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    4 This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

  • Ezek 34:9
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    9 For this reason, O you keepers of the flock, give ear to the word of the Lord;

  • Ps 78:71
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    71 From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

  • Gen 30:35-36
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    35 So that day he took all the he-goats which were banded or coloured, and all the she-goats which were marked or coloured or had white marks, and all the black sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons;

    36 And sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flock.

  • Gen 31:38
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    38 These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

  • Gen 24:11
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    11 And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.

  • 1 Chr 4:39
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    39 And they went to the opening into Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, in search of grass-land for their flocks.

  • Ezek 34:22
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    22 I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep.

  • Gen 30:29
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    29 Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.

  • Ezek 34:17
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    17 And as for you, O my flock, says the Lord, truly, I will be judge between sheep and sheep, the he-sheep and the he-goats.

  • Isa 7:21
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    21 And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;

  • Num 27:17
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    17 To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.

  • Gen 30:38
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    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.

  • Gen 32:16
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    16 These he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and let there be a space between one herd and another.

  • Jer 6:3
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    3 Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.

  • Ps 8:7
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    7 All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field;