Genesis 29:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 24:15 : 15 Before 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).
  • Exod 2:15-16 : 15 When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain well. 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.
  • Exod 2:21 : 21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
  • Song 1:7-8 : 7 The Shepherd and the ShepherdessThe Beloved to Her Lover: Tell me, O you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat? Tell me lest I wander around beside the flocks of your companions! 8 The Lover to His Beloved: If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.

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  • Gen 29:10-13
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    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.

    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 29:5-8
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    5So he said to them,“Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?”“We know him,” they said.

    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.”

  • Gen 29:1-3
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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.

  • Gen 31:4
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    4So Jacob sent a message for Rachel and Leah to come to the field where his flocks were.

  • 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.

  • Gen 29:27-30
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    27Complete my older daughter’s bridal week. Then we will give you the younger one too, in exchange for seven more years of work.”

    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.)

    30Jacob slept with Rachel as well. He also loved Rachel more than Leah. Then he worked for Laban for seven more years.

  • Gen 29:16-20
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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.”

    20So Jacob worked for seven years to acquire Rachel. But they seemed like only a few days to him because his love for her was so great.

  • 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 31:32-34
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    32Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it.”(Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

    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.

    34(Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel’s saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

  • Gen 24:15
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    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).

  • Gen 31:25
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    25Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

  • Gen 24:45
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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.’

  • Gen 30:38-39
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    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.

    39When the sheep mated in front of the branches, they gave birth to young that were streaked or speckled or spotted.

  • Gen 29:23-24
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    23In the evening he brought his daughter Leah to Jacob, and he slept with her.

    24(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)

  • 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.

  • Gen 31:14
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    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him,“Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

  • Gen 30:25
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    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.

  • Gen 35:16
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    16They traveled on from Bethel, and when Ephrath was still some distance away, Rachel went into labor– and her labor was hard.

  • Gen 30:3
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    3She replied,“Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”

  • Gen 30:29
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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.