Genesis 29:9 “While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’…”

Genesis 29:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

While he talked with them, Rahel also came with her fathers sheepe, for she kept them.

Darby Translation

While he was still speaking to them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Young's Literal Translation

He is yet speaking with them, and Rachel hath come with the flock which her father hath, for she [is] shepherdess;

Bible in Basic English

While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them.

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Cross references

Exodus 2:15–16 Song of Solomon 1:7–8 Exodus 2:21 Genesis 24:15

Exodus 2:15–16 · BSB

When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

Song of Solomon 1:7–8 · BSB

Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?

Exodus 2:21 · BSB

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

Genesis 24:15 · BSB

Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

10As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

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