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

New Living Translation
Jacob was still talking with them when Rachel arrived with her father’s flock, 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.

Berean Standard Bible
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived 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.

New King James Version
Now 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.

NASB 1995
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

NASB 1977
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

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

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And while he was speaking with them, Rakhyl came with the sheep of her father because she was a shepherdess.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
While he was yet speaking to them, behold, Rachel the daughter of Laban came with her father's sheep, for she fed the sheep of her father.

Contemporary English Version
While Jacob was still talking with the men, his cousin Rachel came up with her father's sheep.

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

English Revised Version
While he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
While he was still talking to them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, because she was a shepherd.

Good News Translation
While Jacob was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with the flock.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she tended them.

Literal Standard Version
He is yet speaking with them, and Rachel has come with the flock which her father has, for she [is] shepherdess;

Majority Standard Bible
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

New American Bible
While he was still talking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was the one who tended them.

NET Bible
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, for she was tending them.

New Revised Standard Version
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep; for she kept them.

New Heart English Bible
While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was tending them.

Webster's Bible Translation
And while he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

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

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;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Jacob Meets Rachel
8But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.” 9While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.…

Cross References
Genesis 29:8
But they replied, "We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep."

Genesis 29:10
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother's brother Laban, with Laban's sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep.

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

1 Samuel 9:11
And as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, "Is the seer here?"


Treasury of Scripture

And while he yet spoke with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.

Rachel.

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.

Exodus 2:15,16,21
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…

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? …

for she kept them.

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Genesis 29
1. Jacob comes to the well of Haran.
9. He becomes acquainted with Rachel.
13. Laban entertains him.
18. Jacob covenants for Rachel.
23. He is deceived by Laban with Leah.
28. He marries also Rachel, and serves for her seven years more.
32. Leah bears Reuben;
33. Simeon;
34. Levi;
35. and Judah.














(9) Rachel came with her father's sheep.--Comp. Exodus 2:16; and so in modern times Mr. Malan saw "the sheik's daughter, the beautiful and well-favoured Ladheefeh, drive her flock of fine patriarchal sheep" to a well for water in this very region (Philosophy or Truth, p. 95). As forty years at least elapsed between this meeting of Jacob and Rachel and the birth of Benjamin, she must have been a mere child at this time.

Verse 9. - And while he yet spake with them (literally, he yet speaking with them), Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them - or, she was a shepherdess, the part. רֹעָה being used as a substantive (Gesenius, 'Lex.,' sub. nom.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
While
עוֹדֶ֖נּוּ (‘ō·w·ḏen·nū)
Adverb | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

he was still speaking
מְדַבֵּ֣ר (mə·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

with them,
עִמָּ֑ם (‘im·mām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

Rachel
וְרָחֵ֣ל ׀ (wə·rā·ḥêl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 7354: Rachel -- a wife of Jacob

arrived
בָּ֗אָה (bā·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

with
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

her father’s
לְאָבִ֔יהָ (lə·’ā·ḇî·hā)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1: Father

sheep,
הַצֹּאן֙ (haṣ·ṣōn)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 6629: Small cattle, sheep and goats, flock

for
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

she
הִֽוא׃ (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

was a shepherdess.
רֹעָ֖ה (rō·‘āh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with


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