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Jacob Meets Rachel

29 Jacob journeyed on and reached the territory that belonged to the people who lived in the east.[a] As he was observing a well that had been dug out on the open range, all of a sudden he noticed three flocks of sheep lying there, because shepherds watered their flocks from that well. There was a very large stone that covered the opening of the well,

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  1. Genesis 29:1 Lit. sons of the east

29 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

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.

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