Genesis 29:3
“And thither were all the flockes gathered, and they rolled the stone from the wels mouth, & watered the sheepe, and put the stone againe vpon the wels mouth in his place.”
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Genesis 29:3 Context
1Then Iacob went on his iourney, and came into the land of the people of the East. 2And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and loe, there were three flocks of sheepe lying by it: for out of that wel they watered the flocks: and a great stone was vpon the welles mouth. 3And thither were all the flockes gathered, and they rolled the stone from the wels mouth, & watered the sheepe, and put the stone againe vpon the wels mouth in his place. 4And Iacob said vnto them, My brethren, whence be ye? and they saide, Of Haran are we. 5And he said vnto them, Know ye Laban the sonne of Nahor? And they sayde, We knowe him.
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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.
- King James Version
When all the flocks were gathered there, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.
- New American Standard Version (1995)