Genesis 32:4
And he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your servant Jacob says, Till now I have been living with Laban:
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- Gen 4:7 : 7 If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.
- Gen 23:6 : 6 My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.
- Gen 27:29 : 29 Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.
- Gen 27:37 : 37 And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?
- Gen 32:5 : 5 And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.
- Gen 32:18 : 18 Then say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are an offering for my lord, for Esau; and he himself is coming after us.
- Gen 33:8 : 8 And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.
- Exod 32:22 : 22 And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil.
- 1 Sam 26:17 : 17 And Saul, conscious that the voice was David's, said, Is that your voice, David, my son? And David said, It is my voice, O my lord king.
- 1 Kgs 20:32 : 32 So they put on haircloth, and cords on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, Your servant Ben-hadad says, Let me now keep my life. And he said, Is he still living? he is my brother.
- Prov 6:3 : 3 Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
- Prov 15:1 : 1 By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.
- Eccl 10:4 : 4 If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.
- Luke 14:11 : 11 For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.
- 1 Pet 3:6 : 6 As Sarah was ruled by Abraham, naming him lord; whose children you are if you do well, and are not put in fear by any danger.
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- Gen 32:16-205 verses83%
16These he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and let there be a space between one herd and another.
17And he gave orders to the first, saying, When my brother Esau comes to you and says, Whose servant are you, and where are you going, and whose are these herds?
18Then say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are an offering for my lord, for Esau; and he himself is coming after us.
19And he gave the same orders to the second and the third and to all those who were with the herds, saying, This is what you are to say to Esau when you see him;
20And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.
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3Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;
- Gen 32:5-62 verses82%
5And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.
6When the servants came back they said, We have seen your brother Esau and he is coming out to you, and four hundred men with him.
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15And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?
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8And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.
- Gen 32:8-92 verses75%
8And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.
9Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:
- Gen 31:3-42 verses74%
3Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.
4And Jacob sent for Rachel and Leah to come to him in the field among his flock.
- Gen 30:28-292 verses74%
28Say then what your payment is to be and I will give it.
29Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.
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1Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.
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6And Rebekah said to Jacob, her son, Your father said to your brother Esau in my hearing,
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43So now, my son, do what I say: go quickly to Haran, to my brother Laban;
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37And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?
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5So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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25Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.