²He looked around, and out in a field he saw a well with a large stone over the opening. Three flocks of sheep were lying down near it, because the flocks were watered from that well. ³When all the flocks were gathered there, the stone would be rolled off the opening of the well so that the sheep could be watered. Then the stone would be put back in place over the opening of the well.

⁴Jacob asked some people, “My friends, where are you from?”

“We’re from Haran,” they replied.

⁵He asked them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?”

They answered, “We do.”

⁶“How is he doing?” Jacob asked them.

“He’s fine,” they answered. “Here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep.”

⁷“It’s still the middle of the day,” he said. “It isn’t time yet to gather the livestock. Water the sheep. Then let them graze.”

⁸They replied, “We can’t until all the flocks are gathered. When the stone is rolled off the opening of the well, we can water the sheep.”

⁹While he was still talking to them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, because she was a shepherd. ¹⁰Jacob saw Rachel, daughter of his uncle Laban, with his uncle Laban’s sheep. He came forward and rolled the stone off the opening of the well and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep. ¹¹Then Jacob kissed Rachel and sobbed loudly. ¹²When Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s nephew and that he was Rebekah’s son, she ran and told her father.

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