Verse (Click for Chapter) 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. Contemporary English Version While Jacob was still talking with the men, his cousin Rachel came up with her father's sheep. 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. Majority Standard Bible While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. NET Bible While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father's sheep, for she was tending 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionHe is yet speaking with them, and Rachel has come with the flock which her father has, for she [is] 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; Smith's Literal Translation He yet speaking to them, and Rachel came with the sheep were to her father; for she fed them. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThey were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she fed the flock. Catholic Public Domain Version They were still speaking, and behold, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep; for she pastured the flock. 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. New Revised Standard Version While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep; for she kept them. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa Biblegland while he was still conversing with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she was a shepherdess. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And while he was speaking with them, Rakhyl came with the sheep of her father because she was a shepherdess. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she tended them. 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. 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 24:15-20 Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor. / Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again. / So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.” ... Exodus 2:16-21 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. / And when some shepherds came along and drove them away, Moses rose up to help them and watered their flock. / When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?” ... Ruth 2:5-9 And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?” / The foreman answered, “She is the Moabitess who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab. / She has said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.’ So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.” ... John 4:7-14 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” / (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) / “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) ... Genesis 24:43-46 Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’ / and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son. / And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’ ... 1 Samuel 9:11-13 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?” / “Yes, he is ahead of you,” they answered. “Hurry now, for today he has come to the city because the people have a sacrifice on the high place. / As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.” Genesis 30:25-30 Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland. / Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.” / But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.” ... Genesis 24:11-14 As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water. / “O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. / Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. ... Genesis 33:13-14 But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die. / Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir.” Genesis 24:62-67 Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev. / Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching. / And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel ... Genesis 28:1-5 So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded. / “Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother. / May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples. ... Genesis 26:12-14 Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him, / and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy. / He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him. Genesis 31:4-13 So Jacob sent word and called Rachel and Leah to the field where his flocks were, / and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me. / You know that I have served your father with all my strength. ... Genesis 24:1-4 By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. / So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh, / and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling, ... Genesis 30:1-3 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob. / Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?” / Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.” 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. Jump to Previous Care Father's Flock Kept Rachel Sheep Speaking Talking TendedJump to Next Care Father's Flock Kept Rachel Sheep Speaking Talking TendedGenesis 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. While he was still speaking with them This phrase sets the scene in a pastoral context, where Jacob is engaged in conversation with the local shepherds. The Hebrew root for "speaking" (דָּבַר, dabar) often implies not just casual conversation but a purposeful dialogue. In the biblical narrative, speech is a powerful tool for conveying God's will and establishing relationships. Here, Jacob's interaction with the shepherds is a prelude to a significant encounter, highlighting the providential timing of God in orchestrating events. Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep for she was a shepherdess Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Whileעוֹדֶ֖נּוּ (‘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 Links Genesis 29:9 NIVGenesis 29:9 NLT Genesis 29:9 ESV Genesis 29:9 NASB Genesis 29:9 KJV Genesis 29:9 BibleApps.com Genesis 29:9 Biblia Paralela Genesis 29:9 Chinese Bible Genesis 29:9 French Bible Genesis 29:9 Catholic Bible OT Law: Genesis 29:9 While he was yet speaking with them (Gen. 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