If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, and you must rule over it.”

Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.”

And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

When Abraham reproved Abimelech about a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized,

He said, “These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

Isaac and Rebekah

Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.

So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water, and she drew for all his camels.

(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)

And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.

But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water,

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.

And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”

So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.”

As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large,

and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place over the mouth of the well.

He said to them, “Is it well with him?” They said, “It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!”

But they said, “We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.

So he said to him, “Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.