Genesis 18:4
But I will bring a little water, and you may wash your feet and rest under the tree.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
In Context
3And he said: “If I, O lord, have found grace in your eyes, do not pass by your servant.
Cross References
Genesis 19:2And he said: “I beg you, my lords, turn aside to the house of your servant, and lodge there. Wash your feet, and in the morning you will advance on your way.” And they said, “Not at all. But we will lodge in the street.”
Genesis 43:24And having led them into the house, he brought water, and they washed their feet, and he gave fodder to their donkeys.
1 Samuel 25:41And rising up, she reverenced prone on the ground, and she said, “Behold, let your servant be a handmaid, to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
John 13:5Next he put water into a shallow bowl, and he began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he was wrapped.
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 →