Jacob Arrives in Paddan Aram

29 Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples.^(A)

⁹ While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep,^(A) for she was a shepherd. ¹⁰ When Jacob saw Rachel^(B) daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone^(C) away from the mouth of the well and watered^(D) his uncle’s sheep.^{(E) 11} Then Jacob kissed^(F) Rachel and began to weep aloud.^{(G) 12} He had told Rachel that he was a relative^(H) of her father and a son of Rebekah.^(I) So she ran and told her father.^(J)