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


In Context

14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'—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 It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.

16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

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

18 She said, |Drink, my lord.| She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him drink.

19 When she had done giving him drink, she said, |I will also draw for your camels, until they have done 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:17The servant hurried to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water from your jar."

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 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.