Genesis 29:7
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 29:8-103 verses85%
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.”
9 While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was tending them.
10 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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6 “Is he well?” Jacob asked. They replied,“He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”
- Gen 29:2-32 verses77%
2 He 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.
3 When 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.
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13 But 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.
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23 Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,
- Gen 37:12-165 verses73%
12 When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
13 Israel said to Joseph,“Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them.”“I’m ready,” Joseph replied.
14 So 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.
15 When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering in the field, so the man asked him,“What are you looking for?”
16 He replied,“I’m looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks.”
- Ezek 34:6-72 verses72%
6 My 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 2:16-194 verses72%
16 Now 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.
17 When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.
18 So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked,“Why have you come home so early today?”
19 They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”
- Gen 30:31-322 verses72%
31 So 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:
32 Let 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.
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14 Shepherd 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.
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16 Both night and day they were a protective wall for us the entire time we were with them, while we were tending our flocks.
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4 So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.
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32 The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
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42 But 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.
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7 Now 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.
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4 The LORD my God says this:“Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter.
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9 Therefore, you shepherds, listen to the LORD’s message:
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71 He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation.
- Gen 30:35-362 verses70%
35 So 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.
36 Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban’s flocks.
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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.
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11 He 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.
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39 They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east of the valley, looking for pasture for their sheep.
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22 I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.
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29 “You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.
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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.
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21 At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.
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17 who 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.”
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38 Then 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.
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16 He 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.”
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3 Kings will attack it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.
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7 including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,