Genesis 33:12

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Then Esau said,“Let’s be on our way! I will go in front of you.”

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  • Gen 33:13-16
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    13But Jacob said to him,“My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.

    14Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

    15So Esau said,“Let me leave some of my men with you.”“Why do that?” Jacob replied.“My lord has already been kind enough to me.”

    16So that same day Esau made his way back to Seir.

  • Gen 32:16-20
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    16He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

    17He instructed the servant leading the first herd,“When my brother Esau meets you and asks,‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? Whose herds are you driving?’

    18then you must say,‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau. In fact Jacob himself is behind us.’”

    19He also gave these instructions to the second and third servants, as well as all those who were following the herds, saying,“You must say the same thing to Esau when you meet him.

    20You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”

  • 3One of them said,“Please come along with your servants.” He replied,“All right, I’ll come.”

  • 11Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need.” When Jacob urged him, he took it.

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    14And the LORD said,“My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

    15And Moses said to him,“If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.

    16For how will it be known then that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us, so that we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the earth?”

  • Num 10:30-32
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    30But Hobab said to him,“I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.”

    31Moses said,“Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.

    32And if you come with us, it is certain that whatever good things the LORD will favor us with, we will share with you as well.”

  • 8Esau then asked,“What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?” Jacob replied,“To find favor in your sight, my lord.”

  • 8He then asked,“Which invasion route are we going to take?” Jehoram answered,“By the road through the wilderness of Edom.”

  • 8Then Judah said to his father Israel,“Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die– we and you and our little ones.

  • 32Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”

  • 56But he said to them,“Don’t detain me– the LORD has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master.”

  • 5So he said to his servants,“You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”

  • 3Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”

  • 3Jacob sent messengers on ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the region of Edom.

  • 40He answered,‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father’s family.

  • Gen 44:33-34
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    33“So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

    34For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”

  • Num 20:17-18
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    17Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”

    18But Edom said to him,“You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword.”

  • 3The LORD said to Jacob,“Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you.”

  • 8“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought,“then the other camp will be able to escape.”

  • 9Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

  • 2The LORD appeared to Isaac and said,“Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

  • 61Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left.

  • 10He said to them,“The LORD will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents! Watch out! Trouble is right in front of you!

  • 28They replied,“We could plainly see that the LORD is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us– between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

  • 16Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”