Genesis 29:8
They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."
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- Gen 29:3 : 3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.
- Gen 34:14 : 14 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
- Gen 43:32 : 32 They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
- Mark 16:3 : 3 They were saying among themselves, "Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?"
- Luke 24:2 : 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb.
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- Gen 29:6-72 verses85%
6He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."
7He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."
- Gen 29:2-43 verses85%
2He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.
3There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.
4Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."
- Gen 29:9-113 verses83%
9While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.
10It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
11Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Exod 2:16-194 verses73%
16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
17The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
18When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"
19They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."
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16They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- Gen 30:38-392 verses70%
38He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
39The flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.
- Gen 24:18-203 verses70%
18She said, "Drink, my lord." She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.
19When she had done giving him drink, she said, "I will also draw for your camels, until they have done drinking."
20She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
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13Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
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31He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
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32It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
- Gen 24:45-462 verses69%
45Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
46She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.
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32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'
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43behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,"
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11He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
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57They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."
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42but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
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30He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."
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12Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"
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26We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.'
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15Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
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16They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:
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14and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
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4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
- Gen 24:13-142 verses68%
13Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
14Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'--let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."
- Gen 26:19-202 verses68%
19Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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12His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
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9If they say thus to us, 'Wait until we come to you!' then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.
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14Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
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38"These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
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19The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], pass through on my feet."
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26Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
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16The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
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29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.