20 You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

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27 Accept this gift(A) your servant has brought to my lord, and let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.

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A bribe(A) seems like a magic stone to its owner;
wherever he turns, he succeeds.(B)

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Many seek a ruler’s favor,(A)
and everyone is a friend of one who gives gifts.(B)

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14 A secret gift soothes anger,
and a covert bribe,[a] fierce rage.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 21:14 Lit a bribe in the bosom

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