Genesis 32:13-20

13So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took aa present for his brother Esau, 14two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams, 15thirty milking camels and their calves, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten male donkeys. 16These he handed over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me and put a space between drove and drove.” 17He instructed the first, “When Esau my brother meets you and asks you, ‘To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And whose are these ahead of you?’ 18then you shall say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a present sent to my lord Esau. And moreover, he is behind us.’” 19He likewise instructed the second and the third and all who followed the droves, “You shall say the same thing to Esau when you find him, 20and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him
Hebrew  appease his face
with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
Hebrew  he will lift my face

Joshua 15:19

19She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

Judges 1:15

15She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

1 Samuel 25:27

27And now let this dpresent that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

1 Samuel 30:26

26When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord.”

2 Kings 5:15

Gehazi’s Greed and Punishment

15Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold, I know that ethere is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so faccept now a present from your servant.”

2 Corinthians 9:5-6

5So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for the ggift
Greek blessing; twice in this verse
you have promised, so that it may be ready ias a willing gift, jnot as an exaction.
Or  a gift expecting something in return; Greek greed


The Cheerful Giver

6The point is this: lwhoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully
Greek with blessings; twice in this verse
will also reap bountifully.
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