Genesis 29:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

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  • Exod 2:17 : 17 When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

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  • Gen 29:6-9
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    6“Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied,“He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

    7Then Jacob said,“Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more.”

    8“We can’t,” they said,“until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”

    9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.

  • Gen 29:11-13
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    11Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

    12When Jacob explained to Rachel that he was a relative of her father and the son of Rebekah, she ran and told her father.

    13When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him.

  • Gen 29:1-4
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    1The Marriages of Jacob So Jacob moved on and came to the land of the eastern people.

    2He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

    3When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

    4Jacob asked them,“My brothers, where are you from?” They replied,“We’re from Haran.”

  • Gen 24:29-30
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    29(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

    30When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say,“This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.

  • Gen 29:16-19
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    16(Now Laban had two daughters; the older one was named Leah, and the younger one Rachel.

    17Leah’s eyes were tender, but Rachel had a lovely figure and beautiful appearance.)

    18Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said,“I’ll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel.”

    19Laban replied,“I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

  • 4So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • Gen 29:28-29
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    28Jacob did as Laban said. When Jacob completed Leah’s bridal week, Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.

    29(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

  • Gen 24:14-16
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    14I will say to a young woman,‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.’ May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.”

    15Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah(Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor).

    16Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever been physically intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.

  • 2Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother’s father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

  • Gen 31:18-19
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    18He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

    19While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

  • 25Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

  • 33So Laban entered Jacob’s tent, and Leah’s tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

  • Gen 24:45-46
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    45“Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her,‘Please give me a drink.’

    46She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.

  • 38Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.

  • 25The Flocks of Jacob After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban,“Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

  • 5So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

  • 43Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”

  • 25In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban,“What in the world have you done to me! Didn’t I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?”

  • 12Then he said,‘Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

  • 2When Jacob saw the look on Laban’s face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

  • Gen 30:41-42
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    41When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.

    42But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

  • 4So Rachel gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob slept with her.

  • 23In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.