A moment in scripture
Genesis 29:7
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- Genesis 29:5
And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
- 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.
- Genesis 29:8
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.
- Genesis 29:9
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.