Chapter .xxix.
Then Iacob lift up his feet, and went toward the east country. And
as he looked about, behold there was a well in the field, and
three flocks of sheep lay thereby (for at that well were the
flocks watered) and there lay a great stone at the well mouth. And
the manner was to bring the flocks thither, and to roll the stone
from the well's mouth and to water the sheep, and to put the stone
again upon the well's mouth unto his place. And Iacob said unto
them: brethren, whence be ye? And they said: of Haran are we. And
he said unto them: Know ye Laban the son of Nahor. And they said:
We know him. And he said unto them: is he in good health? And they
said: he is in good health: and behold, his daughter Rahel cometh
with the sheep. And he said: lo, it is yet a great while to night,
neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together:
water the sheep and go and feed them. And they said: we may not,
until all the flocks be brought together, and the stone be rolled
from the well's mouth, and so we water our sheep. While he yet
talked with them, Rahel came with her father's sheep, for she kept
them. As soon as Iacob saw Rahel, the daughter of Laban his
mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, he
went and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the
sheep of Laban his mother's brother.
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