Genesis 32:21

New American Bible - revised edition

and also tell him, ‘Your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For Jacob reasoned, “If I first appease him with a gift that precedes me, then later, when I face him, perhaps he will forgive me.”

Cross References

Genesis 32:20

He also ordered the second servant and the third and all the others who followed behind the herds: “Thus and so you shall say to Esau, when you reach him;

Genesis 32:22

So the gifts went on ahead of him, while he stayed that night in the camp. Jacob’s New Name.

Genesis 33:11

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.

Genesis 43:11

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.

Proverbs 17:8

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

Joshua 8:9

Then Joshua sent them away. They went to the place of ambush, taking up their position to the west of Ai, toward Bethel. Joshua, however, spent that night with the army.

1 Samuel 25:19

She then said to her servants, “Go on ahead; I will follow you.” But to her husband Nabal she said nothing.