OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 29:2

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He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.

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Verse 2. Stone. Not of such an immoderate size but that Jacob could remove it. In that country water was scarce, and preserved with care. Calmet.

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