Genesis 24:11

Good News Translation

When he arrived, he made the camels kneel down at the well outside the city. It was late afternoon, the time when women came out to get water.

Cross References

Genesis 24:42

“When I came to the well today, I prayed, ‘Lord, God of my master Abraham, please give me success in what I am doing.

Genesis 29:2

Suddenly he came upon a well out in the fields with three flocks of sheep lying around it. The flocks were watered from this well, which had a large stone over the opening.

Exodus 2:15

When the king heard about what had happened, he tried to have Moses killed, but Moses fled and went to live in the land of Midian. One day, when Moses was sitting by a well, seven daughters of Jethro, the priest of Midian, came to draw water and fill the troughs for their father's sheep and goats.

Proverbs 12:10

Good people take care of their animals, but wicked people are cruel to theirs.

John 4:7

A Samaritan woman came to draw some water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.” (

Judges 5:11

Listen! The noisy crowds around the wells are telling of the Lord's victories, the victories of Israel's people! Then the Lord's people marched down from their cities.