Genesis 29:3

Modern English Version

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds rolled the stone from the well’s opening, watered the sheep, then put the stone back on the well’s opening in its place.

Cross References

Genesis 29:2

As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. A large stone was on the well’s opening.

Genesis 29:4

Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” And they said, “We are from Harran.”

Genesis 29:8

They said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the well’s opening. Then we may water the sheep.”

Exodus 2:17

Then shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Song of Solomon 4:12

A garden enclosed is my sister, my bride, a spring locked, a fountain sealed.

Judges 5:11

consider the voice of those who distribute water among the watering places. There they tell of the righteous deeds of the Lord, the righteous deeds of villagers in Israel. “Then the people of the Lord go down to the gates.