Genesis 29:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ The shepherds would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep when all the flocks  were gathered there. Then they would return the stone to its place over the well’s opening.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And when all the flocks were gathered there, [the shepherds] would roll the stone from the well's mouth, water the sheep, and replace the stone on the well's mouth.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ 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 its place.

Common English Bible

³ When all of the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the well’s opening, water the sheep, and return the stone to its place at the well’s opening.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together, to roll away the stone. And when the flocks had been refreshed, they placed it over the mouth of the well again.

Genesis 29:3 Cross References

Genesis 29:2

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well.

Genesis 29:4

Jacob asked the men at the well, ‘My brothers! Where are you from? ’ ‘We’re from Haran,’ they answered.

Genesis 29:8

But they replied, ‘We can’t until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well’s opening. Then we will water the sheep.’

Exodus 2:17

Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock.

Song of Solomon 4:12

My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden – a locked garden  and a sealed spring.

Judges 5:11

Let them tell the righteous acts  of the  Lord, the righteous deeds of his villagers in Israel, with the voices of the singers at the watering places. Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates.