Genesis 18:5
Since you have come here to me, allow me to bring you some food [SYN] so that you can feel refreshed before you leave.” Yahweh replied, “All right, do as you have said.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
4Allow my servants to bring a little water and wash your feet, and rest under this tree.
Cross References
Genesis 19:8Listen to me. I have two daughters who have never had sex with any man. Let me bring them out to you now, and you can do with them whatever pleases you. But don’t do anything to these men, because they are guests in my house, so I must protect them!”
Judges 6:18But do not go away until I go and bring back an offering to you.” Yahweh answered, “Okay, I will stay here until you return.”
Judges 19:5On the fourth day, they all got up early in the morning. The man from the tribe of Levi was preparing to leave, but the woman’s father said to him, “Eat something before you go.”
Psalms 104:15We get grapes to make [MTY] wine to drink and make us cheerful, and we get olives to make [MTY] olive oil to put on our skin and cause it to shine, and we get grain to make [MTY] bread to give us strength.
Matthew 6:11Give us (exc) each day the food [SYN] that we (exc) need for that day.
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 →