Genesis 29:9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherd.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherd.

English Standard Version
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

New American Standard Bible
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

King James Bible
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

International Standard Version
While he was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, since she was a shepherdess.

American Standard Version
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep. For she kept them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she fed the flock.

Darby Bible Translation
While he was still speaking to them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

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;

Cross References

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 29:10
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.

Exodus 2:16
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.

1 Samuel 9:11
And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, Is the seer here?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

29:9-14 See Rachel's humility and industry. Nobody needs to be ashamed of honest, useful labour, nor ought it to hinder any one's preferment. When Jacob understood that this was his kinswoman, he was very ready to serve her. Laban, though not the best humoured, bade him welcome, and was satisfied with the account Jacob gave of himself. While we avoid being foolishly ready to believe every thing which is told us, we must take heed of being uncharitably suspicious.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9-11. 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?