The shepherds would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep when all the flocks[a] were gathered there. Then they would return the stone to its place over the well’s opening.

Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from?”

“We’re from Haran,” they answered.

“Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?” Jacob asked them.

They answered, “We know him.”

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Footnotes

  1. 29:3 Sam, some LXX mss read flocks and the shepherds

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