Gênesis 18:4

4 Mandarei buscar um pouco d'água para que lavem os pés e descansem debaixo desta árvore.

Gênesis 18:4 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 18:4

Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your
feet
Which was very refreshing to travellers in hot countries, who walked barefoot or in sandals; and this he proposes to be done by one of his servants, whose business it was, only desires they would give him leave to order it, ( 1 Samuel 25:41 ) ; and so it was usual in other countries, and in later times, for servants to fetch water to wash the hands and feet of guests F12:

and rest yourselves under the tree;
before the tent door, under which doubtless were seats to sit down upon, where they might rest their weary limbs; it is very probable this was an oak tree, and which, and a turpentine tree the ancient writers speak of, continued unto the times of Constantine, (See Gill on Genesis 13:18); and the Jewish writers say F13, that now near the city (Hebron), between the vineyards, are the oaks of Mamre, where is the house of Abraham our father, on whom be peace, and the tree under which the angels ate, and the stone on which he (Abraham) sat when he was circumcised.


FOOTNOTES:

F12 "----- dant manibus famuli lymphas." --Virgil. Aeneid. l. 1.
F13 Cippi Hebr. p. 9. Ed. Hottinger.

Gênesis 18:4 In-Context

2 Abraão ergueu os olhos e viu três homens em pé, a pouca distância. Quando os viu, saiu da entrada de sua tenda, correu ao encontro deles e curvou-se até o chão.
3 Disse ele: “Meu senhor, se mereço o seu favor, não passe pelo seu servo sem fazer uma parada.
4 Mandarei buscar um pouco d'água para que lavem os pés e descansem debaixo desta árvore.
5 Vou trazer a vocês também o que comer, para que recuperem as forças e prossigam pelo caminho, agora que já chegaram até este seu servo”.“Está bem; faça como está dizendo”, responderam.
6 Abraão foi apressadamente à tenda e disse a Sara: “Depressa, pegue três medidas da melhor farinha, amasse-a e faça uns pães”.
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