Quotes about Water
Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.
— Genesis 26:19
But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
— Genesis 26:20
Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
— Genesis 26:21
On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
— Genesis 26:32
He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
— Genesis 29:2
When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
— Genesis 29:3
“Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
— Genesis 29:7
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
— Genesis 29:10
When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
— Exodus 2:10
Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
— Exodus 2:16
“An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
— Exodus 2:19
But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”
— Exodus 4:9