Verse 4
Genesis 18:4
World English Bible
4
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Original Language Text
hebrew
יֻקַּֽח נָ֣א מְעַט מַ֔יִם וְ/רַחֲצ֖וּ רַגְלֵי/כֶ֑ם וְ/הִֽשָּׁעֲנ֖וּ תַּ֥חַת הָ/עֵֽץ
English Translation
Please take a little water and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
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Chapter 18 Context
1
Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
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He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ra...
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and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant....
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4
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that...
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6
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead i...
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Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried...
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8
He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them un...
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9
They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
He said, “See, in the tent.”
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10
He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife w...
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11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
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12
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being ol...
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13
Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’
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14
Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round,...
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15
Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid.
He said, “No, but you did laugh....
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16
The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way...
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17
Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,
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18
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be...
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19
For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that...
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20
Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous...
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21
I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If...
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22
The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
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23
Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?
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24
What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the...
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25
Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righte...
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Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place...
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27
Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and a...
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What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?...
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29
He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?”
He said, “I will not do...
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30
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?”
H...
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31
He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found th...
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32
He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found the...
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33
Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his...
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