Genesis 43:11

New English Translation

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man – a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

Cross References

Genesis 33:10

“No, please take them,” Jacob said. “If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.

Genesis 37:25

When they sat down to eat their food, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh down to Egypt.

Genesis 43:10

But if we had not delayed, we could have traveled there and back twice by now!”

Genesis 43:14

May the sovereign God grant you mercy before the man so that he may release your other brother and Benjamin! As for me, if I lose my children I lose them.”

Genesis 43:15

So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

Genesis 43:25

They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival at noon, for they had heard that they were to have a meal there.

Genesis 43:26

When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought inside, and they bowed down to the ground before him.

1 Kings 10:15

besides what he collected from the merchants, traders, Arabian kings, and governors of the land.

1 Kings 10:25

Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.

1 Kings 15:19

“I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. See, I have sent you silver and gold as a present. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.”

1 Kings 4:21

(5:1) Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms paid tribute as Solomon’s subjects throughout his lifetime.

2 Kings 16:8

Then Ahaz took the silver and gold that were in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent it as tribute to the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 20:12

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

2 Kings 8:8

So the king told Hazael, “Take a gift and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

Esther 4:16

“Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!”

Psalm 68:29

as you come out of your temple in Jerusalem! Kings bring tribute to you.

Psalm 72:10

The kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will offer gifts; the kings of Sheba and Seba will bring tribute.

Psalm 76:11

Make vows to the Lord your God and repay them! Let all those who surround him bring tribute to the awesome one!

Exodus 3:8

I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a land that is both good and spacious, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the region of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Proverbs 17:18

The one who lacks wisdom strikes hands in pledge, and puts up financial security for his neighbor.

Proverbs 18:16

A person’s gift makes room for him, and leads him before important people.

Proverbs 19:6

Many people entreat the favor of a generous person, and everyone is the friend of the person who gives gifts.

Proverbs 21:14

A gift given in secret subdues anger, and a bribe given secretly subdues strong wrath.

Song of Solomon 4:10

How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine; the fragrance of your perfume is better than any spice!

Song of Solomon 4:14

nard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon with every kind of spice, myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

Song of Solomon 8:14

Make haste, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Jeremiah 8:22

There is still medicinal ointment available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! Why then have my dear people not been restored to health?

Ezekiel 27:15

The Dedanites were your clients. Many coastlands were your customers; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.

Ezekiel 27:17

Judah and the land of Israel were your clients; they traded wheat from Minnith, millet, honey, olive oil, and balm for your merchandise.

Ezekiel 27:22

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah engaged in trade with you; they traded the best kinds of spices along with precious stones and gold for your products.

Leviticus 20:24

So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.

Acts 21:14

Because he could not be persuaded, we said no more except, “The Lord’s will be done.”

Deuteronomy 33:14

with the harvest produced by the daylight and by the moonlight;

1 Samuel 25:27

Now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the servants who follow my lord.

1 Samuel 9:7

So Saul said to his servant, “All right, we can go. But what can we bring the man, since the food in our bags is used up? We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”