1. Then Jacob lifted up his feet and went to the land of the peoples of the east.
2. When he looked, suddenly, there was a well in the field, and there were three herds of sheep resting by it. (For from that well they would water the flocks. The stone on the mouth of the well was large.
3. When all the herds gathered there, they would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the flocks, and put the stone back to its place over the mouth of the well.)
4. Jacob said to them, “My brothers, where are you from?” “We’re from Haran,” they said.
5. So he said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s son?” They said, “We know.”
6. He said to them, “Is he well?” “Well,” they said. “Look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the flock.”