Genesis 29:9 (KJV)

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And while he yet spake with them Rachel came with her ather’s sheep for she kept them
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Rachel. Ge 24:15 Ex 2:15 Ex 2:16 Ex 2:21 So 1:7 So 1:8

for she kept them.In those primitive times, a pastoral life was not only considered useful but honourable: nor was it beneath the dignity of the daughters of the most opulent chiefs to carry water from the well, or tend the sheep. Jacob, Moses, and David were shepherds.

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