Genesis 29:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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And thither were all the flocks gathered,.... The three above mentioned, Genesis 29:2:

and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep; that is, when they watered the sheep, they used to roll away the stone from the mouth of the well in order to do it; for as yet the flocks, now lying by it, had not been watered, as appears from

Genesis 29:7:

and put a stone upon the well's mouth in this place; this they were wont to do every time they watered the flocks.

Genesis 29:3

3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.