Verse 6, And he said unto them, Is
he well?
And they said, He's well.
And behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the
sheep.
And he said, Lo, it's yet high day,
neither is it time that the cattle should
be gathered together.
Water ye the sheep, and go and feed
them.
Here Jacob has just arrived in the land
and he's telling them already how to water
their sheep, how they should do.
This is typical of him, by the way.
And they said, We cannot until all the
flocks be gathered together, until they roll the
stone from the well's mouth, then we water
the sheep.
And while he yet spake with them, Rachel
came with her father's sheep, for she kept
them.
Now, this is a woman's work, by the
way, in that day.
She was the shepherdess that took care of
the sheep.
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.
And frankly, I don't know who told him
to do it, but he did it.
Whether this was time, I don't know.
I doubt whether it was.
But after all, Jacob is not really following
any one's law except his own.
He made the rules for the game as
he went through life.
That is the first part of his life.
But he's got a tremendous lesson that he's
going to have to learn, and Uncle Laban
is really the one to teach him.