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Genesis 32:20

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

Genesis 32:20 BSB
  1. a Or I will appease his face
  2. b Literally perhaps he will lift up my face

Genesis 32:20 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 42:8–9 (5 votes) and Proverbs 21:14 (4 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 32 to 2 Timothy 2.

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Which verses does Genesis 32:20 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Job 42:8–95 votes

    So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.” So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the LORD had told them; and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.

  2. Proverbs 21:144 votes

    A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.

  3. Genesis 43:112 votes

    Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

  4. 1 Samuel 6:52 votes

    Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.

  5. 1 Samuel 25:17–352 votes

    Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that nobody can speak to him!” Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys …

  6. 1 Kings 20:312 votes

    Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

  7. Proverbs 6:352 votes

    He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.

  8. Proverbs 15:182 votes

    A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.

  9. Proverbs 16:142 votes

    The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

  10. Jonah 3:92 votes

    Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”

  11. 2 Timothy 2:252 votes

Which verses point to Genesis 32:20?

The 10 strongest of 20.