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Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:
Genesis 18:4 · Bible in Basic English
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Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
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1 Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;
2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;
3 And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:
4 Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:
5 And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.
6 Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.
7 And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;
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