Objects
trough
Troughs are where animals drink; Rebekah empties her pitcher into one, Jacob places peeled shoots in them, and in Exodus 2 Reuel's daughters fill troughs to water their father's flock.
Category
Objects
First mention
Exodus 2:16
Tags
3
Genesis 24, 30Exodus 2Water vessel
Scripture references
- Exodus 2:16
Now there was a priest of Midian with seven daughters. They used to come to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.
- Genesis 24:20
She quickly emptied her pitcher into the trough...
- Genesis 30:38
He set up the shoots he had peeled in front of the animals, in the troughs, in the water-holes where the animals came to drink.
- Genesis 30:41
Furthermore, whenever the sturdier animals were mating, Jacob put the shoots where the animals could see them, in the troughs, so that they would mate in front of the shoots.