Genesis 18:4
Allow my servants to bring a little water and wash your feet, and rest under this tree.
Translation for Translators
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 said to one of them, “Sir, if you are pleased with me, stay here for a little while [LIT].
Cross References
Genesis 19:2He said to them, “Gentlemen, please stay in my house tonight. You can wash your feet, and tomorrow you can continue your journey.” But they said, “No, we will just sleep in the city square.”
Genesis 43:24Then he took them into Joseph’s house. He gave them water to wash their feet and gave them food for the donkeys.
1 Samuel 25:41Abigail bowed down with her face touching the ground. Then she told the messengers to tell David, “ I am happy to become your wife. I will be your servant. And I am willing to wash the feet of your slaves.”
John 13:5Then he poured some water in a basin. He began to wash our feet, and then dry them with the towel that he had wrapped around himself.
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 →