Near evening, at the time when women go out to draw water, he made the camels kneel by the well outside the city.
“When I came to the spring today, I said: ‘Lord, God of my master Abraham, please make successful the journey I am on.
Looking about, he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep huddled near it, for flocks were watered from that well. A large stone covered the mouth of the well.
When Pharaoh heard of the affair, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to the land of Midian. There he sat down by a well.
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
The just take care of their livestock, but the compassion of the wicked is cruel.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
to the sounds of musicians at the wells. There they recount the just deeds of the Lord, his just deeds bringing freedom to Israel.
As they were going up the path to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and they asked them, “Is the seer in town?”