Genesis 29:9
“¶ And while hee yet spake with them, Rachel came with her fathers sheepe: for she kept them.”
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Genesis 29:9 Context
7And hee said, Loe, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattell should be gathered together: water yee the sheepe, and goe and feed them. 8And they said, We cannot, vntill all the flockes bee gathered together, and till they rolle the stone from the welles mouth: then wee water the sheepe. 9¶ And while hee yet spake with them, Rachel came with her fathers sheepe: for she kept them. 10And it came to passe, when Iacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mothers brother, and the sheepe of Laban his mothers brother; that Iacob went neere, and rolled the stone from the wels mouth, and watered the flocke of Laban his mothers brother. 11And Iacob kissed Rachel, and lifted vp his voyce, and wept.
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And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.
- King James Version
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
- New American Standard Version (1995)