“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.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.