Genesis 32:21

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So the present passed on ahead of him; and he himself spent that night in the camp.

Cross References

Genesis 32:20

and you shall say, ‘Moreover your servant Jacob is behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterwards I shall see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”

Genesis 32:22

The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Genesis 33:11

Please accept my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I want.” So he urged him, and he took it.

Genesis 43:11

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry them down as a present to the man—a little balm and a little honey, gum, resin, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

Proverbs 17:8

A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of those who give it; wherever they turn they prosper.

Joshua 8:9

So Joshua sent them out; and they went to the place of ambush, and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent that night in the camp.

1 Samuel 25:19

and said to her young men, “Go on ahead of me; I am coming after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.