Then he said, “Look, it is still high day; it is not time for the cattle to be gathered together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.”
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
So he said to them, “Is he well?” And they said, “He is well. And look, his daughter Rachel is coming with the sheep.”
But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they have rolled the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.”