Genesis 29:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Gen 24:15 : 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.
  • Exod 2:15-16 : 15 Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.
  • Exod 2:21 : 21 And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.
  • Song 1:7-8 : 7 Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends? 8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

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  • Gen 29:10-13
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    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.

    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 29:5-8
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    5 And he said to them, Have you any knowledge of Laban, the son of Nahor? And they said, We have.

    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.

  • Gen 29:1-3
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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.

  • 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 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.

  • Gen 29:27-30
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    27 Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.

    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.

    30 Then Jacob took Rachel as his wife, and his love for her was greater than his love for Leah; and he went on working for Laban for another seven years.

  • Gen 29:16-20
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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.

    20 And Jacob did seven years' work for Rachel; and because of his love for her it seemed to him only a very little time.

  • 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 31:32-34
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    32 As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

    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.

    34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

  • Gen 24:15
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    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.

  • Gen 31:25
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    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.

  • Gen 24:45
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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.

  • Gen 30:38-39
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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.

    39 And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.

  • Gen 29:23-24
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    23 And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.

    24 And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.

  • 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.

  • Gen 31:14
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    14 Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 30:25
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    25 Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.

  • Gen 35:16
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    16 So they went on from Beth-el; and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, the pains of birth came on Rachel and she had a hard time.

  • Gen 30:3
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    3 Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

  • 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.