Genesis 29:3 - Modern English Version

³ 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.

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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.

Genesis 29:3 Tagairtí Cros

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.