Wikipedia's first sentence called it “deep well constructed into the bedrock that has been associated in religious tradition with jacob for roughly t”. Today it says “christian holy site located in balata village”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Judaism; Christianity”.
Found by software in Wikipedia's own edit history. Not yet read by hand. The quoted words are Wikipedia's.
Compared with the live article on 2026-08-04.
We saved snapshots of this article over twenty years; you are reading the 2025 one. Red dashes: removed from Wikipedia since.Pale dots: rewritten; the numbered note shows what it says now.Red text: written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot.1 tap a number or a side note to jump between them
The opening as it read in 2025
Jacob's Well (disambiguation) . Photini Church at Bir Ya'qub (2008) Jacob's Well , also known as Jacob's Fountain or the Well of Sychar , is a Christian holy site located in Balata village , a suburb of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank . The well, currently situated inside an Eastern Orthodox church and monastery, has been associated in religious tradition with the biblical patriarch Jacob for roughly two millennia. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
This is Wikipedia's own text, saved in our repository. Their copy of it is revision 1290534347.
The opening as it stood in 2010
The Church of Bir Ya'qub in 2008 Jacob's Well (also, Jacob's fountain and Well of Sychar ) is a deep well hewn of solid rock that has been associated in religious tradition with Jacob for roughly two millennia. It is situated a short distance from the archaeological site of Tell Balata , which is thought to be the site of biblical Shechem . Also commonly known as Bir Ya'qub or Bir Ya'kub ( , Bir ="Well" and Ya'qub ="Jacob"), the well currently lies within the complex of an Eastern Orthodox monastery of the same name, in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 362967673.
The opening as it stood in 2015 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Photini Church at Bir Ya'qub in 2008 Jacob's Well ( , Bir Ya'qub , ; also known as Jacob's fountain and Well of Sychar ) is a deep well hewn of solid rock that has been associated in religious tradition with Jacob for roughly two millennia. It is situated a short distance from the archaeological site of Tell Balata , which is thought to be the site of biblical Shechem .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 663145279.
The opening as it stood in 2020
Photini Church at Bir Ya'qub in 2008 Jacob's Well ( , Bir Ya'qub , , Fréar tou Iakóv , , Be'er Yaaqov ; also known as Jacob's fountain and Well of Sychar ) is a deep well constructed from rock that has been associated in religious tradition with Jacob for roughly two millennia. It is situated a short distance from the archaeological site of Tell Balata , which is thought to be the site of biblical Shechem . The well currently lies within the complex of an Eastern Orthodox monastery of the same name, in the city of Nablus in the West Bank .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 941535087.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023 2 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Site of religious significance.Photini Church at Bir Ya'qub (2008) "Jacobs Well at Shechem April 17th 1839", in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia Jacob's Well ( ; ; ), also known as Jacob's fountain and Well of Sychar , is a deep well constructed into the bedrock that has been associated in religious tradition with Jacob for roughly two millennia.It is situated inside an Eastern Orthodox church and monastery, in Balata village on the outskirts of the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank .
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1174877343.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “deep well constructed into the bedrock that has been associated in religious tradition with jacob for roughly t”. Today it says “christian holy site located in balata village”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Judaism; Christianity”. Read the current article and compare.
2005
2010
2015
2020
Oct '23
2025
Counts in the opening at each snapshot. Green: the word gained ground. Red: it was cut. Grey: no change.
What Wikipedia says this is
Every article opens by defining its subject. This one was redefined since October 7, and today's defining sentence is their current revision.
Then
deep well constructed into the bedrock that has been associated in religious tradition with jacob for roughly t
Now
christian holy site located in balata village
Sections that no longer exist
This section existed on October 6, 2023. It is gone today. The current article has no similar heading in its place, and the article is shorter overall. So this is not a heading that got renamed, and it is not a topic that got folded into a bigger section. 2 sections of 400 characters or more gone since October 6 2023, with the article 1,928 characters shorter.
Judaism
Christianity
Struck red text is no longer in the article; dotted amber text was rewritten. Every revision id links to Wikipedia's copy; the text shown is our own saved copy. Data: /data. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA; quoted for the record; not affiliated with Wikipedia.