And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher.
WEB
So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
YLT
And the servant runneth to meet her, and saith, `Let me swallow, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher;'
DBT
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, sip a little water out of thy pitcher.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)