'Water' in the Bible

Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.

God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.

So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.

God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.

God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."

God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

Now a river flows from Eden to water the orchard, and from there it divides into four headstreams.

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

The Lord's angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert -- the spring that is along the road to Shur.

Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.

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 made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

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).

Abraham's servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug."

When she had done so, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want."

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.

So Abraham's servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.

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."

Then she will reply to me, "Drink, and I'll draw water for your camels too." May that woman be the one whom the Lord has chosen for my master's son.'

"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.'

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.

When Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water belongs to us!" So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.

That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. "We've found water," they reported.

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well's mouth.

Then Jacob said, "Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more."

"We can't," they said, "until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep."

Then they took him and threw him into the cistern. (Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.)

The servant in charge brought the men into Joseph's house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. Then he gave food to their donkeys.

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father's bed, then you defiled it -- he got on my couch!