17The servant hurried to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar."


In Context

14 May it be that when I say to a girl, 'Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels too'-let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

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

16 The girl was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever lain with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.

17 The servant hurried to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar."

18 "Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

19 After she had given him a drink, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have finished drinking."

Genesis 24:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:17And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, sip a little water out of thy pitcher.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water from thy pitcher.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17The servant ran to meet her, and said, |Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:17And the servant runneth to meet her, and saith, 'Let me swallow, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:17And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray you, drink a little water of your pitcher.