Genesis 32:5

World English Bible (2000)

I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.'"

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  • Gen 33:8 : 8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
  • Gen 33:15 : 15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
  • Gen 47:25 : 25 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."
  • Ruth 2:2 : 2 Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor." She said to her, "Go, my daughter."
  • 1 Sam 1:18 : 18 She said, "Let your handmaid find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.
  • 2 Sam 16:4 : 4 Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that pertains to Mephibosheth is yours." Ziba said, "I do obeisance. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king."
  • Job 6:22 : 22 Did I say, 'Give to me?' or, 'Offer a present for me from your substance?'
  • Gen 33:11 : 11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.
  • Gen 30:43-31:1 : 43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys. 1 He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."
  • Gen 31:16 : 16 For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

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  • Gen 32:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

    4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

  • Gen 33:8
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    8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Gen 33:13-15
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    78%

    13 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

    14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."

    15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Gen 32:6
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    6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

  • Gen 32:14-20
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    77%

    14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

    15 thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.

    16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."

    17 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

    18 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"

    19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

    20 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

  • Gen 24:35
    77%

    35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • Gen 30:26-31
    6 verses
    76%

    26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service with which I have served you."

    27 Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."

    28 He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."

    29 He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

    30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

    31 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

  • Gen 33:5
    75%

    5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

  • Gen 30:43
    74%

    43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • Gen 33:10-11
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    10 Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

    11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

  • Gen 12:16
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    16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

  • Gen 31:12
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    12 He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

  • Gen 33:1
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    1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

  • Gen 31:42
    71%

    42 Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

  • Gen 27:37
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    37 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"

  • Gen 31:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

    5 and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

  • Gen 32:10
    70%

    10 I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.