Genesis 29:7 - Exposition

And he said, Lo, it is yet high day (literally, the day is yet great , i . e . much of it still remains), neither is it time that the cattle should he gathered together ( i . e . to shut them up for the night): water ye the sheep, and go and feed them —being desirous to get the shepherds away from the well that he might meet Rachel alone (Keil, Lange, Murphy), though perhaps his words with as much correctness may be traced to that prudent and industrious habit of mind which afterwards shone forth so conspicuously in himself, and which instinctively caused him to frown upon laziness and inactivity (Starke, Kalisch, Bush).