KJV King James Version
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 29:9
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
WEB World English Bible
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.
ASV American Standard Version
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep; for she kept them.
YLT 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;
Surrounding context — Genesis 29
6 And he said unto them, [Is] he well? And they said, [He is] well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
7 And he said, Lo, [it is] yet high day, neither [is it] time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go [and] feed [them].
8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and [till] they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.
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 rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
12 And Jacob told Rachel that he [was] her father’s brother, and that he [was] Rebekah’s son: and she ran and told her father.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
עוֹדֶ֖נּוּH5750 · odstillמְדַבֵּ֣רH1696 · da.varto speak: speakעִמָּ֑םH5973 · imwithוְרָחֵ֣ל׀H7354 · ra.chelRachelבָּ֗אָהH935 · boto come (in): comeעִם־H5973 · imwithהַצֹּאן֙H6629 · tsonflockאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichלְאָבִ֔יהָH1 · avfatherכִּ֥יH3588 · kiforרֹעָ֖הH7462 · bet-e.qed ha.ro.imHouse of Shepherdsהִֽוא׃H1931 · huhe/she/it
Cross-references
Exodus 2:21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.Song of Solomon 1:7-8Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest [thy flock] to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?Exodus 2:15-16Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.Genesis 24:15And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
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