Genesis 24:17 “So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little…”

Genesis 24:17

So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

World English Bible

The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”

American Standard Version

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then the seruant ranne to meete her, and said, Let me drinke, I pray thee, a litle water of thy pitcher.

Darby Translation

And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, sip a little water out of thy pitcher.

Young's Literal Translation

And the servant runneth to meet her, and saith, 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher;'

Bible in Basic English

And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.

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Cross references

“Let”

John 4:7 1 Kings 17:10 John 4:9

John 4:7 · BSB

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

1 Kings 17:10 · BSB

So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”

John 4:9 · BSB

“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

“water of”

Genesis 26:1–35 Isaiah 21:14 Isaiah 30:25 Isaiah 49:10 Isaiah 35:6 Isaiah 35:7

Genesis 26:1–35 · BSB

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

Isaiah 21:14 · BSB

Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.

Isaiah 30:25 · BSB

And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isaiah 49:10 · BSB

They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

Isaiah 35:6 · BSB

Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 35:7 · BSB

The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

18“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

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