Genesis 29:9

World English Bible (2000)

While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 24:15 : 15 It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.
  • Exod 2:15-16 : 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well. 16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. They came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
  • Exod 2:21 : 21 Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.
  • Song 1:7-8 : 7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover 8 If you don't know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.

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  • Gen 29:10-13
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    87%

    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.

    12Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

    13It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

  • Gen 29:5-8
    4 verses
    85%

    5He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

    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."

    8They 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."

  • Gen 29:1-3
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    80%

    1Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

    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.

  • Gen 31:4
    78%

    4Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 31:18-19
    2 verses
    78%

    18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

    19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.

  • Gen 29:27-30
    4 verses
    78%

    27Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years."

    28Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.

    29Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

    30He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

  • Gen 29:16-20
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    77%

    16Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

    17Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

    18Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."

    19Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."

    20Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

  • Gen 24:29-30
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    29Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

    30It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

  • Gen 31:32-34
    3 verses
    75%

    32Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.

    33Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

    34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.

  • Gen 24:15
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    15It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

  • Gen 31:25
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    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

  • Gen 24:45
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    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.'

  • Gen 30:38-39
    2 verses
    73%

    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 29:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

    24Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

  • Gen 30:42
    72%

    42but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

  • Gen 31:14
    72%

    14Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • Gen 30:25
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    25It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

  • Gen 35:16
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    16They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

  • Gen 30:3
    71%

    3She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

  • Gen 30:29
    71%

    29He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.