Genesis 43:11

New Century Version

Then their father Jacob said to them, “If it has to be that way, then do this: Take some of the best foods in our land in your packs. Give them to the man as a gift: some balm, some honey, spices, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Cross References

Genesis 33:10

Jacob said, “No! Please! If I have pleased you, then accept the gift I give you. I am very happy to see your face again. It is like seeing the face of God, because you have accepted me.

Genesis 37:25

While Joseph was in the well, the brothers sat down to eat. When they looked up, they saw a group of Ishmaelites traveling from Gilead to Egypt. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh.

Genesis 43:10

If we had not wasted all this time, we could have already made two trips.”

Genesis 43:14

I pray that God Almighty will cause the governor to be merciful to you and that he will allow Simeon and Benjamin to come back with you. If I am robbed of my children, then I am robbed of them!”

Genesis 43:15

So the brothers took the gifts. They also took twice as much money as they had taken the first time, and they took Benjamin. They hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

Genesis 43:25

The men prepared their gift to give to Joseph when he arrived at noon, because they had heard they were going to eat with him there.

Genesis 43:26

When Joseph came home, the brothers gave him the gift they had brought into the house and bowed down to the ground in front of him.

1 Kings 10:15

Besides that, he also received gold from the traders and merchants, as well as from the kings of Arabia and governors of the land.

1 Kings 10:25

Every year those who came brought gifts of silver and gold, clothes, weapons, spices, horses, and mules.

1 Kings 15:19

“Let there be a treaty between you and me as there was between my father and your father. I am sending you a gift of silver and gold. Break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel so he will leave my land.”

1 Kings 4:21

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These countries brought Solomon the payments he demanded, and they were under his control all his life.

2 Kings 16:8

Ahaz took the silver and gold that was in the Temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the palace, and he sent these as a gift to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 20:12

At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan was king of Babylon. He sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, because he had heard that Hezekiah was sick.

2 Kings 8:8

The king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand and go meet him. Ask the Lord through him if I will recover from my sickness.”

Esther 4:16

“Go and get all the Jewish people in Susa together. For my sake, fast; do not eat or drink for three days, night and day. I and my servant girls will also fast. Then I will go to the king, even though it is against the law, and if I die, I die.”

Psalm 68:29

Kings will bring their wealth to you, to your Temple in Jerusalem.

Psalm 72:10

Let the kings of Tarshish and the faraway lands bring him gifts. Let the kings of Sheba and Seba bring their presents to him.

Psalm 76:11

Make and keep your promises to the Lord your God. From all around, gifts should come to the God we worship.

Exodus 3:8

and I have come down to save them from the Egyptians. I will bring them out of that land and lead them to a good land with lots of room—a fertile land. It is the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Proverbs 17:18

It is not wise to promise to pay what your neighbor owes.

Proverbs 18:16

Taking gifts to important people will help get you in to see them.

Proverbs 19:6

Many people want to please a leader, and everyone is friends with those who give gifts.

Proverbs 21:14

A secret gift will calm an angry person; a present given in secrecy will quiet great anger.

Song of Solomon 4:10

Your love is so sweet, my sister, my bride. Your love is better than wine, and your perfume smells better than any spice.

Song of Solomon 4:14

nard and saffron, calamus, and cinnamon, with trees of incense, myrrh, and aloes— all the best spices.

Song of Solomon 8:14

Hurry, my lover, be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains where spices grow.

Jeremiah 8:22

Isn’t there balm in the land of Gilead? Isn’t there a doctor there? So why aren’t the hurts of my people healed?

Ezekiel 27:15

“ ‘People of Rhodes became merchants for you, selling your goods on many coastlands. They brought back ivory tusks and valuable black wood as your payment.

Ezekiel 27:17

“ ‘People of Judah and Israel became merchants for you. They traded your goods for wheat from Minnith, and for honey, olive oil, and balm.

Ezekiel 27:22

“ ‘The merchants of Sheba and Raamah became merchants for you. They traded your goods for all the best spices, valuable gems, and gold.

Leviticus 20:24

“ ‘I have told you that you will get their land, which I will give to you as your very own; it is a fertile land. I am the Lord your God, and I have set you apart from other people and made you my own.

Acts 21:14

We could not persuade him to stay away from Jerusalem. So we stopped begging him and said, “We pray that what the Lord wants will be done.”

Deuteronomy 33:14

with the best fruits that the sun brings, and with the best fruits that the moon brings.

1 Samuel 25:27

I have brought a gift to you for the men who follow you.

1 Samuel 9:7

Saul said to his servant, “If we go into the town, what can we give him? The food in our bags is gone. We have no gift to give him. Do we have anything?”