“And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.”
There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone covering the mouth of the well was large. The well scene echoes Genesis 24:11 — the servant positioning himself at the well where the women come to draw water — and anticipates the well encounter with Rachel in the verses that follow. Wells are covenant meeting places in the patriarchal narratives. The application: the geography of covenant encounter in Genesis consistently involves wells — the place of common need, common gathering, and providential meeting.
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