Genesis 18:5

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

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In The King James Version

And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

In Context

4Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:

6Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:8See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.

Judges 6:18Do not go away till I come with my offering and put it before you. And he said, I will not go away before you come back.

Judges 19:5Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning and he made ready to go away; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, Take a little food to keep up your strength, and then go on your way.

Psalms 104:15And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

Matthew 6:11Give us this day bread for our needs.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 18:2-9

Abraham's Interview with the Angels. ( b. c. 1898.) 1 And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; 2 And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself toward the ground, 3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: 4 Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest… Read the whole commentary →

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