Genesis 29:9
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep: for she kept them.
Genesis 29:9 in other translations
| BSB | While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. |
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| WEB | While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she kept them. |
| ASV | While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep; for she kept them. |
| YLT | He is yet speaking with them, and Rachel hath come with the flock which her father hath, for she is shepherdess; |
| DARBY | While he was still speaking to them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess. |
| BBE | While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she took care of them. |
| Webster | And while he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. |
What does Genesis 29:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 29:9-11
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 29:9-14
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Genesis 29:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 29:9
- Exodus 2:21
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
- Song of Solomon 1:7-8
Tell 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? If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds’ tents.
- Exodus 2:15-16
Now 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. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
- Genesis 24:15
And 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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24:15; Ex 2:15,16,21; So 1:7,8
for she kept them.In those primitive times, a pastoral life was not only considered useful but honourable: nor was it beneath the dignity of the daughters of the most opulent chiefs to carry water from the well, or tend the sheep. Jacob, Moses, and David were shepherds.
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Context
- 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.
- Genesis 29:10
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.
Genesis 29:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Estando aún él hablando con ellos, Rachêl vino con el ganado de su padre, porque ella era la pastora. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Comme il parlait encore avec eux, Rachel vint avec le bétail qui était à son père; car elle était bergère. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Noch redete er mit ihnen, da kam Rahel mit den Schafen, die ihrem Vater gehörten; denn sie war eine Hirtin. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Adhuc loquebantur, et ecce Rachel veniebat cum ovibus patris sui: nam gregem ipsa pascebat. |