"Jacob set off briskly and headed toward the land of the people of the East."Literally, "Jacob took up his feet" - with his actions, Jacob was setting the events in the near future, and the distant one, at the end of days. His swift departure was created for later an equally quick departure from Egypt. He's going to the east later to receive the Torah.
The meaning of the well in the field and the large stone on top of it can be explained as follows. The stone represents all the hard questions and the possible answers one finds on his way to truth. Since there are so many questions and possible solutions, everybody seems right, but the fact remains unattainable. With his single-handed rolling of the stone, Jacob represented later great thinkers who could illuminate the minds, making things crystal clear and water the flocks. That was only true in their generation, however, since repeated arguments and repeated answers again obscured the truth and again made it unattainable.
Jacob will be reincarnated in the future, and this time he will break the stone as a hammer that splits the rocks. He will then roll off the stone from the mouth of the well, this time without questions or hard-to-understand concepts, and all his explanations will be accurate.
This also hints at the phrase, "I am God your Lord." The four letters of God's name, "Havaya" (יהוה), are indicated by two stone tablets and the ten commandments on them. Each tablet thus contained five commandments. The size of each tablet was six by six hand-breadths, altogether third-six, and the two tablets measured 72 (עב). That is the secret of the phrase "God said to Moses, 'I will come to you in a thick (עב) cloud so that all the people will hear when I speak to you. They will then believe in you forever.'"
Art: Feodor Alexandrovich Vasilyev - Storm Clouds
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