Genesis 18:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

Genesis 18:6 —

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Matthew 13:33
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Isaiah 32:8
But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Romans 12:13
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Hebrews 13:2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
1 Peter 4:9
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

The appearance of God to Abraham seems to have had in it more of freedom and familiarity, and less of grandeur and majesty, than those we have hitherto read of; and therefore more resembles that great visit which, in the fullness of time, the Son of God was to make to the world, when the Word would be flesh, and appear as one of us. Observe here, I. How Abraham expected strangers, and how richly h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. Abraham hastened ... unto Sarah ... make cakes upon the hearth--Bread is baked daily, no more than is required for family use, and always by the women, commonly the wife. It is a short process. Flour mixed with water is made into dough, and being rolled out into cakes, it is placed on the earthen floor, previously heated by a fire. The fire being removed, the cakes are laid on the ground, and b…