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Genesis 32:14

New American Bible - revised edition

After passing the night there, Jacob selected from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

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So the man grew exceedingly prosperous, and he owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.

Once, during the flock’s mating season, I had a dream in which I saw he-goats mating that were streaked, speckled and mottled.

All the wealth that God took away from our father really belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you.”

So God took away your father’s livestock and gave it to me.

You yourself said, ‘I will be very good to you, and I will make your descendants like the sands of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’”

two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes and twenty rams;

Accept the gift I have brought you. For God has been generous toward me, and I have an abundance.” Since he urged him strongly, Esau accepted.

Israel their father then told them: “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the land’s best products in your baggage and take them down to the man as gifts: some balm and honey, gum and resin, and pistachios and almonds.

and he had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-donkeys, and a very large household, so that he was greater than anyone in the East.

Thus the Lord blessed the later days of Job more than his earlier ones. Now he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.

A bribe seems a charm to its user; at every turn it brings success.

Remember then the Lord, your God, for he is the one who gives you the power to get wealth, by fulfilling, as he has now done, the covenant he swore to your ancestors.

There was a man of Maon who had property in Carmel; he was very wealthy, owning three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. At the time, he was present for the shearing of his flock in Carmel.




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