24 Bible Verses about Water Containers
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Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.
When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.
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 looked and right there by his head was a cake baking on hot coals and a jug of water. He ate and drank and then slept some more.
I will say to a young woman, 'Please lower your jar so I may drink.' May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master."
Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor).
"Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.'
Abraham's servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug."
Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I'll say, "Give me a little water to drink from your jug."
"Drink, my lord," she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.
She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.
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.
Then he set up the peeled branches in all the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. He set up the branches in front of the flocks when they were in heat and came to drink.
When the stronger females were in heat, Jacob would set up the branches in the troughs in front of the flock, so they would mate near the branches.
Then the Lord said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt's waters -- over their rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs -- so that it becomes blood.' There will be blood everywhere in the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers."
Take note of the field where the men are harvesting and follow behind with the female workers. I will tell the men to leave you alone. When you are thirsty, you may go to the water jars and drink some of the water the servants draw."
before the silver cord is removed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the well, or the water wheel is broken at the cistern --
Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
He sent two of his disciples and told them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.
He said to them, "Listen, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters,
Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,
He poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to dry them with the towel he had wrapped around himself.
You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?
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