Genesis 32:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 with the people.

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.