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Genesis 29:5

Verse 5 of 35. The 29th of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.

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

2He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw 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 back on the well’s mouth in its place.

4Jacob said to them, “My relatives, where are you from?” They said, “We are from Haran.”

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 will water the sheep.”

9While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.