Genesis 29:8
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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.”
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They found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
They were asking one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance of the tomb?”
When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.