Genesis 29:3

New English Translation

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

Cross References

Genesis 29:2

He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

Genesis 29:4

Jacob asked them, “My brothers, where are you from?” They replied, “We’re from Haran.”

Genesis 29:8

“We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”

Exodus 2:17

When some shepherds came and drove them away, Moses came up and defended them and then watered their flock.

Song of Solomon 4:12

You are a locked garden, my sister, my bride; you are an enclosed spring, a sealed-up fountain.

Judges 5:11

Hear the sound of those who divide the sheep among the watering places; there they tell of the Lord’s victorious deeds, the victorious deeds of his warriors in Israel. Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates –