Genesis 18:4
Accept now a little water, and wash your feet, and recline under the tree,
Targum Onkelos
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, Lord, if now I have found favour in Thine eyes, pass not, I pray, from Thy servant.
Cross References
Genesis 19:2And he said, I pray my lords ( ribboni) to turn aside unto the house of your servant and lodge, and wash your feet; and rising early you shall go on your way. And they said, Not so, but in the wide place will we lodge.
Genesis 43:24And the man brought the men into Joseph’s house, and gave water, and they washed their feet, and he gave provender for their asses.
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 →