Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.

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

That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. (It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)

But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

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

When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

He replied, “You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”

She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.

Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported.

“We can’t,” they said, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.