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He made the camels kneel beside a well of water outside the town at evening. This was the time when the women went out to draw water.

I am standing here at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

“Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

As they were climbing the hill to the city, they found some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”

Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah-daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor-coming with a jug on her shoulder. Now the girl was very beautiful, a young woman who had not known a man intimately. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.


Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen, my daughter. Don’t go and gather grain in another field, and don’t leave this one, but stay here close to my female servants.

Do not stare at me because I am dark,
for the sun has gazed on me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
they made me a keeper of the vineyards.
I have not kept my own vineyard.


This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Consider, and summon the women who mourn;
send for the skillful women.

Now hear the word of the Lord, you women.
Pay attention to the word of His mouth.
Teach your daughters a lament
and one another a dirge,


So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Knead three measures of fine flour and make bread.”



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

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



Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left.


She selects wool and flax and works with willing hands. She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from far away.


Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing. Miriam sang to them: Sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted; He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea.


She makes her own bed coverings;
her clothing is fine linen and purple.


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