Genesis 33:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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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  • Ruth 2:13 : 13 Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.
  • Gen 34:11 : 11 And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.
  • Gen 47:25 : 25 And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
  • 1 Sam 25:8 : 8 If your young men are questioned they will say the same thing. So now, let my young men have grace in your eyes, for we are come at a good time; please give anything you may have by you to your servants and to your son David.
  • 2 Sam 16:4 : 4 Then the king said to Ziba, Truly everything which was Mephibosheth's is yours. And Ziba said, I give honour to my lord, may I have grace in your eyes, my lord, O king!

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  • Gen 33:8-14
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    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.

    9 But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

    10 And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

    11 Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

    12 And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

    13 But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

    14 Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.

  • Gen 33:16
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    16 So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.

  • Gen 32:17-20
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    17 And 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?

    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.

    19 And 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;

    20 And 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.

  • Gen 32:3-5
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    3 Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;

    4 And he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your servant Jacob says, Till now I have been living with Laban:

    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.

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    5 Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.

  • Gen 32:8
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    8 And said, If Esau, meeting one group, makes an attack on them, the others will get away safely.

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    3 And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:

  • Gen 27:36-37
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    36 And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?

    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?

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    30 And Esau said to Jacob, Give me a full meal of that red soup, for I am overcome with need for food: for this reason he was named Edom.

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    11 Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.

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    32 And Esau said, Truly, I am at the point of death: what profit is the birthright to me?

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    30 And when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had not long gone away from Isaac his father, Esau came in from the field.

  • Exod 33:16
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    16 For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?

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    31 And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.