Genesis 18:4
Let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and recline yourselves under the tree.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
Cross References
Genesis 19:2and he said: 'Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way.' And they said: 'Nay; but we will abide in the broad place all night.'
Genesis 43:24And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
1 Samuel 25:41And she arose, and bowed down with her face to the earth, and said: 'Behold, thy handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.'
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 →