So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
Parallel translations
- WEB The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
- KJV And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
- NKJV And the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher.”
- NASB Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar.”
- NLT Running over to her, the servant said, “Please give me a little drink of water from your jug.”
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Quick answer
The servant runs to meet Rebekah and asks for a little water. He initiates the very test he had prayed about.
Overview
The servant promptly approaches Rebekah with a simple request for a drink. His action sets in motion the confirmation of God's guidance. The unfolding scene shows divine providence working through ordinary courtesy at a well.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- John 4:7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
- Gen 26:1–35Now 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.
- Isa 21:14Bring water for the thirsty, O dwellers of Tema; meet the refugees with food.
- 1 Kgs 17:10So 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.”
- Isa 41:17–18The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Isa 49:10They 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.
- Isa 30:25And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- John 4:9“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.)
- Isa 35:6–7Then 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.
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