Genesis 29:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then 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.”

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  • Gal 6:9-9 : 9 So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up. 10 So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the family of faith.
  • Eph 5:16 : 16 taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

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  • Gen 29:8-10
    3 verses
    85%

    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.

    10When 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.

  • Gen 29:6
    77%

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

  • Gen 29:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Gen 33:13
    73%

    13But Jacob said to him,“My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

  • Prov 27:23
    73%

    23Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,

  • Gen 37:12-16
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    73%

    12When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,

    13Israel said to Joseph,“Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.”“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.

    14So Jacob said to him,“Go now and check on the welfare of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word.” So Jacob sent him from the valley of Hebron.

    15When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him,“What are you looking for?”

    16He replied,“I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks.”

  • Ezek 34:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. My sheep were scattered over the entire face of the earth with no one looking or searching for them.

    7“‘Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the LORD’s message:

  • Exod 2:16-19
    4 verses
    72%

    16Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill the troughs in order to water their father’s flock.

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

    18So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked,“Why have you come home so early today?”

    19They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”

  • Gen 30:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31So Laban asked,“What should I give you?”“You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied,“but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:

    32Let me walk among all your flocks today and remove from them every speckled or spotted sheep, every dark-colored lamb, and the spotted or speckled goats. These animals will be my wages.

  • Mic 7:14
    71%

    14Shepherd your people with your rod, the flock that belongs to you, the one that lives alone in a thicket, in the midst of a pastureland. Allow them to graze in Bashan and Gilead, as they did in the old days.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
    71%

    16Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.

  • Gen 31:4
    71%

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

  • Gen 46:32
    71%

    32The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

  • Gen 30:42
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    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.

  • 1 Sam 25:7
    70%

    7Now I hear that they are shearing sheep for you. When your shepherds were with us, we neither insulted them nor harmed them the whole time they were in Carmel.

  • Zech 11:4
    70%

    4The LORD my God says this:“Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.

  • Ezek 34:9
    70%

    9Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the LORD’s message:

  • Ps 78:71
    70%

    71He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation.

  • Gen 30:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35So that day Laban removed the male goats that were streaked or spotted, all the female goats that were speckled or spotted(all that had any white on them), and all the dark-colored lambs, and put them in the care of his sons.

    36Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.

  • Gen 31:38
    70%

    38“I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

  • Gen 24:11
    69%

    11He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

  • 1 Chr 4:39
    69%

    39They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east of the valley, looking for pasture for their sheep.

  • Ezek 34:22
    69%

    22I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

  • Gen 30:29
    69%

    29“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

  • Ezek 34:17
    69%

    17“‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.

  • Isa 7:21
    69%

    21At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

  • Num 27:17
    69%

    17who will go out before them, and who will come in before them, and who will lead them out, and who will bring them in, so that the community of the LORD may not be like sheep that have no shepherd.”

  • Gen 30:38
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 32:16
    69%

    16He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

  • Jer 6:3
    69%

    3Kings will attack it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.

  • Ps 8:7
    68%

    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,