《圣经》（新旧约全书）

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常有羊群在那里聚集，牧人把石头转离井口饮羊，随后又把石头放在井口的原处。

And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place

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雅各对牧人说，弟兄们，你们是哪里来的，他们说，我们是哈兰来的。

And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we

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他问他们说，拿鹤的孙子拉班，你们认识吗。他们说，我们认识。

And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him

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雅各说，他平安吗。他们说，平安。看哪，他女儿拉结领着羊来了。

And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep

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雅各说，日头还高，不是羊群聚集的时候，你们不如饮羊，再去放一放。

And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them

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他们说，我们不能，必等羊群聚齐，人把石头转离井口才可饮羊。

And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep

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雅各正和他们说话的时候，拉结领着她父亲的羊来了，因为那些羊是她牧放的。

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them

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雅各看见母舅拉班的女儿拉结和母舅拉班的羊群，就上前把石头转离井口，饮他母舅拉班的羊群。

And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that 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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雅各与拉结亲嘴，就放声而哭。

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

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雅各告诉拉结，自己是她父亲的外甥，是利百加的儿子，拉结就跑去告诉她父亲。

And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son: and she ran and told her father