Genesis 29:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ And he said to the shepherds: Brethren, whence are you? They answered: Of Haran.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together, to roll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the mouth of the well again.

Genesis 29:3 Cross References

Genesis 29:2

And the custom was, when all the sheep were gathered together to roll away the stone, and after the sheep were watered, to put it on the mouth of the well again.

Genesis 29:4

And he asked them, saying: Know you Laban the son of Nachor? They said: We know him.

Genesis 29:8

They were yet speaking, and behold Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she fed the flock.

Exodus 2:17

9 They answered: A man of Egypt delivered us from the hands of the shepherds: and he drew water also with us, and gave the sheep to drink.

Song of Solomon 4:12

My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch.

Judges 5:11

6 Why dwellest thou between two borders, that thou mayest hear the bleatings of the flocks? Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men.