Genesis 29:10 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Genesis 29:10

8 But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.”

9 Now while he was still speaking with them, ^aRachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

10 And it came to pass, 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 ^arolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

11 Then Jacob ^akissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept.

12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was ^aher father’s relative and that he was Rebekah’s son. ^bSo she ran and told her father.

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While he yet spake with them, Rachel came—Among the pastoral tribes the young unmarried daughters of the greatest sheiks tend the flocks, going out at sunrise and continuing to watch their fleecy charges till sunset. Watering them, which is done twice a day, is a work of time and labor, and Jacob rendered no small service in volunteering his aid to the young shepherdess. The interview was affecting, the reception welcome, and Jacob forgot all his toils in the society of his Mesopotamian relatives. Can we doubt that he returned thanks to God for His goodness by the way?

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