Reference for Bava Metzia 172:16

יוקח נא מעט מים ורחצו רגליכם אמר רבי ינאי ברבי ישמעאל אמרו לו וכי בערביים חשדתנו שהם משתחוים לאבק רגליהם כבר יצא ממנו ישמעאל

<i>Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet</i>:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XVIII, 4; ');">²⁸</span> R. Jannai son of R. Ishmael said: They [the travellers] protested to him [Abraham], 'Dost thou suspect us of being Arabs, who worship the dust on their feet? Ishmael has already issued from thee.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., thine own son does so. ');">²⁹</span>

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