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Genesis 32:20 (Listen)

20 and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him1 with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”2

Footnotes

[1] 32:20 Hebrew appease his face
[2] 32:20 Hebrew he will lift my face

1 Samuel 25:27 (Listen)

27 And now let this bpresent that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

Proverbs 17:8 (Listen)

yA bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it;

wherever he turns he prospers.