Genesis 18:4
please let a little water be accepted, and wash Your feet, and recline under the tree;
Literal Standard 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
Cross References
Genesis 19:2and he says, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside to the house of your servant, and lodge, and wash your feet—then you have risen early and gone on your way”; and they say, “No, but we lodge in the broad place.”
Genesis 43:24And the man brings in the men into Joseph’s house, and gives water, and they wash their feet; and he gives provender for their donkeys,
1 Samuel 25:41And she rises and bows herself—face to the earth—and says, “Behold, your handmaid [is] for a maidservant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
John 13:5afterward He puts water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of His disciples, and to wipe with the towel with which He was being girded.
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 →