Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- wash your feet
- In those ancient times, shoes such as ours, were not in use; and the foot was protected only with sandals or soles, fastened round the foot with straps. It was, therefore, not only necessary from motives of cleanliness, but also a very great refreshment, in so hot a country, to get the feet washed at the end of a day's journey; and this is the first thing that Abraham proposes.
- Genesis 19:2; Genesis 24:32; Genesis 43:24; 1 Samuel 25:41; Luke 7:44; John 13:5–15; 1 Timothy 5:10