Running over to her, the servant said, “Please give me a little drink of water from your jug.”
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.
- BSB So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
- 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.”
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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 4:7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
- Gen 26:1–35There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
- Isa 21:14They brought water to him who was thirsty. The inhabitants of the land of Tema met the fugitives with their bread.
- 1 Kgs 17:10So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”
- Isa 41:17–18The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. Their tongue fails for thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Isa 49:10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.
- Isa 30:25There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- John 4:9The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
- Isa 35:6–7Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
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