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He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well. 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.

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