Genesis 24:11

24:11 He made the camels kneel down by the well ¹  outside the city. It was evening, ²  the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Genesis 29:2

29:2 He saw ³  in the field a well with ⁴  three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now ⁵  a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

John 4:6

4:6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside ⁶  the well. It was about noon. ⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “well of water.”

² tn Heb “at the time of evening.”

³ tn Heb “and he saw, and look.” As in Gen 28:12-15, the narrator uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) here and in the next clause to draw the reader into the story.

⁴ tn Heb “and look, there.”

⁵ tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by the noun with the prefixed conjunction) provides supplemental information that is important to the story.

⁶ tn Grk “on (ἐπί, epi) the well.” There may have been a low stone rim encircling the well, or the reading of Ì⁶⁶ (“on the ground”) may be correct.

⁷ tn Grk “the sixth hour.”