Genesis 18:4

Let me have some water brought so you can wash your feet and rest under the tree.

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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

3He said, “Sir, if you please, don't continue your journey without spending some time here with me, your servant.

5Also let me bring some food so you can get your strength back before you go on your way, now that you've come to visit me here.” “That would be fine,” they answered. “Please do as you've suggested.”

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Cross References

Genesis 19:2“Sirs, please come and stay with me for the night,” he said. “You can wash your feet and then be on your way early in the morning.” They replied, “No, it's fine. We'll spend the night here in the square.”

Genesis 43:24The steward took them inside Joseph's house, gave them water to wash their feet, and supplied food for their donkeys.

1 Samuel 25:41She stood up, then bowed down low, and said, “I am David's maidservant. I am prepared to serve and to wash the feet of my master's servants.”

John 13:5He poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel he had wrapped around him.

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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