Genesis 29:3
1 Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.
2 He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
4 “My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
5 “Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone back on the well’s mouth in its place.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the mouth of the well in its place.
- BLB
- And all the flocks would be gathered there, and they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and they would water the sheep, and they would return the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.
- ÅB
- Der samlet alle feflokkene seg, og gjæterne veltet steinen fra brønnens åpning og vannet småfeet, og så la de steinen tilbake på sitt sted, over brønnens åpning.
- OTB
- Når alle flokkene var samlet, ville gjeterne rulle steinen bort fra brønnens munn og vanne sauene, deretter legge steinen tilbake over brønnens munn.
- B1930
- Der samlet alle feflokkene sig, og gjæterne veltet stenen fra brønnens åpning og vannet småfeet, og så la de stenen tilbake på sitt sted, over brønnens åpning.