Genesis 29:2
As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there by it. For out of that well they would water the flocks, and the stone over the well's mouth was large.
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1Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
Cross References
Genesis 24:11He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water. It was evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
Exodus 2:15Now when Pharaoh heard about it, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. There he sat down by a well.
Song of Solomon 1:6Do not stare at me because I am dark, 1 because the sun has scorched me. 1 My mother's sons were angry with me; 1 they made me keeper of the vineyards, 1 but my own vineyard I have not kept. The woman speaking to the man 1
John 4:6The well of Jacob was there. Jesus was tired from his journey and sat by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Revelation 7:17For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd, 2 and he will guide them to springs of living water, 1 and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 29:2-9
Jacob's Arrival at Padan-aram. ( b. c. 1760.) 1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east. 2 And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth. 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. 4 And Jacob said… Read the whole commentary →