Genesis 24:17
Good News Translation
The servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a drink of water from your jar."

New Revised Standard Version
Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me sip a little water from your jar.”

Contemporary English Version
Abraham's servant ran to her and said, "Please let me have a drink of water."

New American Bible
the servant ran toward her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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1 Kings 17:10 He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

John 4:7,9 There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink. . . .

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Genesis 26:1-35 And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara. . . .

Isaiah 21:14 Meeting the thirsty bring him water, you that inhabit the land of the south, meet with bread him that fleeth.

Isaiah 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every elevated hill rivers of running waters in the day of the slaughter of many, when the tower shall fall.

Isaiah 35:6,7 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall be free: for waters are broken out in the desert, and streams in the wilderness. . . .

Isaiah 41:17,18 The needy and the poor seek for waters, and there are none: their tongue hath been dry with thirst. I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. . . .

Isaiah 49:10 They shall not hunger, nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor the sun strike them: for he that is merciful to them, shall be their shepherd, and at the fountains of waters he shall give them drink.

Context
Rebekah is Chosen
16An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and was coming back. 17And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.18And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink.…
Cross References
John 4:7
There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

Genesis 24:45
And whilst I pondered these things secretly with myself, Rebecca appeared, coming with a pitcher, which she carried on her shoulder: and she went down to the well and drew water. And I said to her: Give me a little to drink.

1 Kings 17:10
He arose, and went to Sarephta. And when he was come to the gate of the city, he saw the widow woman gathering sticks, and he called her, and said to her: Give me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

Genesis 24:16
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