Bible verse

Genesis 24:17

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

Genesis 24:17 · BSB

Genesis 24:17 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 24.

13 Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

14 Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

15 Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

16 Now 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.

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

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

19 After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”

20 And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

21 Meanwhile, the man watched her silently to see whether or not the LORD had made his journey a success.

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Genesis 24:17 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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