Genesis 29:1-3

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Jacob Arrives in Northwestern Mesopotamia

29 Then Jacob ·continued his journey [^Llifted his feet] and came to the land of the people of the East [^Cthe area of the Arameans on the northern Euphrates]. ² He looked and saw a well in the field and three flocks of sheep lying nearby, because they drank water from this well. A large stone covered the mouth of the well. ³ When all the flocks would gather there, ·the shepherds [^Lthey] would roll the stone away from the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place.