Genesis 33:15

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Ruth 2:13 : 13 Then she said, "Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens."
  • Gen 34:11 : 11 Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
  • 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."
  • 1 Sam 25:8 : 8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.'"
  • 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."

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  • Gen 33:8-14
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    83%

    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."

    9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."

    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.

    12 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

    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."

  • Gen 33:16
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    16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

  • Gen 32:17-20
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    78%

    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 32:3-5
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    78%

    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.

    5 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.'"

  • Gen 33:5
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    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 32:8
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    8 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

  • Gen 18:3
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    3 and said, "My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.

  • Gen 27:36-37
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    36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

    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 25:30
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    30 Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

  • Gen 32:11
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    11 Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and strike me, and the mothers with the children.

  • Gen 25:32
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    32 Esau said, "Behold, I am about to die. What good is the birthright to me?"

  • Gen 27:30
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    30 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

  • Exod 33:16
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    16 For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

  • Num 10:31
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    31 He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.