Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
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Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Behold, I am standing by this spring of water, and the daughters of the people of the city are coming out to draw water.
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Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water. And the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Lo, I stand by the well of water, whiles the mens daughters of this citie come out to drawe water.
Behold I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water.
lo, I am standing by the fountain of water, and daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;
behold, I am standing by the fountain of water, and daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;
Look, here I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Behold, I am standing by this spring of water, and the daughters of the people of the city are coming out to draw water.
Behold, I stand [here] by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water.
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
Look, I'm standing here beside this spring, and the young women of the town are coming to get water.
See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:
Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לִשְׁאֹ֥ב to draw H7579 — appearing just 19 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לִשְׁאֹ֥ב to draw H7579 occurs in 18 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Genesis 24:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
הִנֵּ֛ה אָנֹכִ֥י נִצָּ֖ב עַל עֵ֣ין הַמָּ֑יִם וּבְנוֹת֙ אַנְשֵׁ֣י הָעִ֔יר יֹצְאֹ֖ת לִשְׁאֹ֥ב מָֽיִם
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἰδού ἐγώ ἵστημι ἐπί ὁ πηγή ὁ ὕδωρ ὁ δέ θυγάτηρ ὁ οἰκέω ὁ πόλις ἐκπορεύομαι ἀντλέω ὕδωρ
Behold! I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of them that inhabit the city come forth to draw water.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
הָא אֲנָא קָאֵם עַל עֵינָא דְמַיָּא וּבְנַת אֱנָשֵׁי קַרְתָּא נַפְקַן לְמִמְלֵי מַיָּא
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
הָא אֲנָא קָאִי עַל עֵינָא דְמַיָא וּבְנַתְהוֹן דְאַנְשֵׁי קַרְתָּא נַפְקַן לְמִמְלֵי מוֹי
Behold I stand at the well of waters, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming forth to fill waters.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâʼab (“to draw”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 24:13 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.