OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 11

Genesis 29:11

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Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

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Genesis 29:8–14

8

They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep.”

9

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

10

When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

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Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

12

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

13

When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

14

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

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