Genesis 18:4

Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves 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

3And he said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy eyes, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.

5And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your heart, after that ye may pass on; since ye have once passed by your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast spoken.

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Cross References

Genesis 19:2And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye can rise up early, and go on your way. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

Genesis 43:24And the man brought the men into Joseph's house; and he gave them water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender to their asses.

1 Samuel 25:41Thereupon she arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thy hand-maid be 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 →

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