Women: Tended Flocks and Herds

As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.

Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”

And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel arrived with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.